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Where did the Federal Workers go in the nation's capital? I'm David Brancaccio. If a goal of

conservatives is to, the word is shrink the federal government, it is showing up in the numbers at least in Washington, D.C.

We have new statistics this week on employment from the Labor Department. Turns out in

2023, D.C. ranked last when it comes to growth in federal government jobs to the point that the

number of DC federal workers went down.

For years there have been more federal workers outside the capital than in it, and that trend picked up during the

pandemic. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genser has our report. A couple of days ago

economist T.J. Leputra was in his downtown Washington office at the

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

crunching some numbers for me. I'd asked him to figure out what happened to the

federal workforce in DC during the pandemic. So from February 2020 to January 2024,

the federal government employment

in the District of Columbia, DC proper, fell by 2%.

By comparison, over that same period, the number of federal employees nationwide actually

grew by more than 4%.

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