Fired federal workers hunt for new jobs but struggle to replace their old ones

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Fired federal workers hunt for new jobs but struggle to replace their old ones

Axed from jobs not easily found outside government, thousands of federal workers caught in President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting efforts now […]

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