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VA, DHS, DoD Account for Most of Job Growth

OPM has published a new statistical breakdown of the federal workforce, showing that as a percentage of the overall American population, it has held roughly steady over the last decade, although in raw numbers it has grown along with the population. About half of the job growth, the data show, was at the VA, with most of the rest concentrated in DHS and various DoD components. Read the full breakdown of the federal workforce at https://s3.amazonaws.com/fedweekimages/PDFs/sizing-up-the-executive-branch-2016.pdf

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