A memo must have gone out: now NBC is running a story about govt worker unemployment

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NBC News spoke with 13 former federal employees and contractors who were laid off during the DOGE job cuts or took the “Fork in the Road” buyout offered by Elon Musk. Seven are unemployed, two are re-employed but making far less than they previously did, two have side hustles and four have moved to find work.

WellFed, an organization that supports former federal workers, estimates just 25% of its members have found new jobs. OneAID, an organization of former USAID workers and their implementing partners, estimates at least 50% of its membership is still unemployed.

“Laid-off workers are now moving into a category that is long-term unemployment. The unemployment checks have stopped. They’re having trouble with health care,” said WellFed co-founder and program director Rebecca Ferguson-Ondrey, who herself lost her job at the Administration for Children and Families almost a year ago.

In the Washington, D.C., region, where almost 10% of the workforce works directly for the federal government, and many more for federal contractors, these job losses were keenly felt.

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