Federal Employees in Minnesota: What do they do?
MPR News reporter Brett Neely recently wrote a story examining the federal employee workforce in Minnesota and the potential affects of the automatic budget cuts (called sequestration) that were triggered March 1.
Here's an interactive graphic we made to go alongside Neely's story:
Note: *Veterans services and Social Security are exempt from automatic cuts. Postal employees are not counted because USPS is independent of the regular budgeting process Source: Office of Policy Management
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