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"textContent": "Nicola Willis and Paul Goldsmith have announced the following: The 55,000 figure will still be higher than what we had in 2019. The ratio of public servants to the population was 1.00% back in 1993. It dropped to 0.75% in 2000. Under Clark it increased to 1.04% in 2009. It was basically stable from 2019 […]\n\nThe post Government to trim 8,700 public servants first appeared on Kiwiblog.",
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