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2018-12-20 Home Front: Culture Wars

DC-area federal government workforce continues to shrink

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-12-20 00:56|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Is this affecting the real estate market? Or are jobs just shifting from government to quasi-government 'private' sector?

Posted by Glenmore 2018-12-20 09:26|| 2018-12-20 09:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Amazon is hiring techies near by

Posted by Crusoling de Medici2683 2018-12-20 12:42|| 2018-12-20 12:42|| Front Page Top

#3 From the article:

Federal government jobs still account for about 10.5 percent of the D.C. region’s total labor force.

The number of local government jobs in the region was up significantly from a year ago.

Local governments employed 341,700 people as of September — 8,300 jobs, or 2.5 percent more than in September 2017.

It looks like the former federal workers found jobs in local government, Glenmore.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-12-20 22:29|| 2018-12-20 22:29|| Front Page Top

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