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Federal jobs went from reliable to risky overnight. Here’s where Americans can find stable work now — and in the future.

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Many federal workers are laid off because of a lack of stability in government.

The good news is that stable jobs exist, says Indeed Hiring Lab economist Allison Shrivastava .

The number of job postings in once-hot areas like software development, IT work, marketing, human resources and banking have cooled.

Federal government layoff rate for all nonfarm workers has generally fluctuated between 1% and 2% since 2000 .

Federal government workers have been targeted so aggressively in the last 50 years , a professor says.

Federal layoffs are “nothing new” in the context of labor history, but this is the first time workers in the federal government have lost their jobs.