Sentences with phrase «shrinking federal workforce»

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has been courting tech companies to help fill the economic gap created by a shrinking federal workforce.

Not exact matches

According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, enacting the bill would shrink the federal budget deficit by $ 175 billion by 2020, lift GDP by 5.4 % over the next 20 years, increase national productivity, balloon the workforce by about 5 % by 2033, raise the return on capital, and (although the CBO didn't put it this way) create a $ 46 billion windfall for entrepreneurs supplying security operations along the U.S. southern border.

Although the net federal workforce shrank in 2013 and is projected to continue that trend, retirements are expected to accelerate rapidly, creating many new employment opportunities.