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Last Updated on Monday, 17 November 2008 01:39 Written by rslcpol Monday, 17 November 2008 01:14
Well now this couldn’t be an entirely bad thing could it? From NCSL’s The Thicket:
New data on legislator occupations show significant changes in the makeup of state legislatures.
Over the past 30 years, attorney legislators have made up the largest occupational category of legislators in the country. In 1976, attorneys constituted nearly 25% of our nation’s legislative bodies, but that number has decreased steadily over the last three decades to about 15 percent today.
At the same time, legislators who classify themselves as full-time legislators increased over the last three decades from three percent in the mid-1970s to over 16 percent today, making it the largest single occupational category in the country.