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Summary.
After steady growth in U.S. public sector employment in 2024, the landscape shifted dramatically in 2025. With constant announcements of federal workforce layoffs and cuts, hundreds of thousands of government employees’ jobs are at risk. Many of these people will seek new employment in the private sector.
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