Polk County reports its staff has increased by only 8% since 2006. Former reports said staffing had increased 45.2%. The larger number resulted from erroneously comparing all employees in the current year to full time equivalent employees in 2006. This announcement is in no way intended to give the impression that all the ads for government jobs, tax increases, advocacies for capacity building, nationalizations, etc. in other branches of government are to be ignored.