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President Donald Trump’s campaign to shrink the federal bureaucracy has triggered a wave of job-hunting by workers at targeted agencies, according to a new study by Indeed Hiring Lab.
Applications on Indeed’s job matching and hiring platform have climbed more than 50% among employees of federal agencies singled out for review by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — ranging from the U.S. Agency for International Development to the Department of Agriculture — the research shows.
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