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Also, hasn’t public-sector hiring been flat for decades? Not even counting the recent DOGE bullshit? This workforce has been aging out with nobody replacing them, and the remaining folks have to do more and more, pushing more people out to private-sector jobs. Just not sure how useful this data is by itself, except as another indicator of U.S. government in decline