Federal Government Shed 12,000 Jobs in July
Federal government jobs decreased by 12,000 last month, according to the Labor Department's monthly employment report on Friday. Since its peak at the beginning of the year, the federal government has lost 84,000 jobs.
Number of employed federal workers, in millions
Data is seasonally adjusted.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Elena Shao
The decline is the latest indication that President Trump is shrinking the federal work force significantly. On Thursday, the Office of Personnel Management, the government's human resources arm, said that the Trump administration was paying about 154,000 employees not to work since it began offering resignation incentives to federal workers.
But even that number, which represents only the share of workers who accepted an offer to resign early in exchange for months of pay, does not capture the full employment picture. It does not include the thousands of people who were laid off or fired.
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