WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 24: As the government lays of workers, what is the unemployment impact likely to be? (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Job cuts are a little over 172,000 for February, ...
Federal government employment as a percent of total payrolls has been historically low for years as a result of total payrolls growing much faster than government employment. But in 2023 through ...
While the private sector added 172,000 jobs to start off 2026, the government moved in the opposite direction. The public sector shed about 42,000 jobs in January, most of it concentrated in the ...