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The Shadow Workforce

November 1, 2003

The recent analysis by Paul Light of the Brookings Institution estimated that the federal contracting workforce grew by 727.000 jobs between 1999 and 2002.

	1999	2002
Civil Servants	1.80M	1.76M
Contractors	4.44M	5.17M
Grantees	2.53M	2.86M

Source: the Brookings Institution

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