Fedweek

While the administration’s fiscal 2001 budget proposal projects 100,000 fewer federal jobs than in the current fiscal year, a close examination of the numbers reveals that more than half of that loss will be temporary jobs at Commerce associated with this year’s census. All but five of the 20 largest agencies project increases in employment from actual 1999 levels, although most of them slight. The Justice Department would be the biggest gainer, up some 10,000 to 131,000.