Federal government biggest job loser in 1990s
January 31, 2001
The Federal government (excluding the Postal Service) lost the most jobs in the 1990s of any industry.
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The number of civilian federal employees (other than postal workers) fell from 2,155,400 in 1989 to 1,796,100 in 1999—a loss of 359,300 jobs. The Department of Defense lost the most: 333,000 civilian workers.
Other industries with large declines in employment in the 1990s included savings institutions and aircraft and parts manufacturing.
These data are a product of the BLS Current Employment StatisticsProgram. Find out more in "Job Growth in the 1990s: a retrospect," by Julie Hatch and Angela Clinton, Monthly Labor Review, December 2000.
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