Maps: Where Do Federal Employees Work in America?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The National Institute of Standards and Technology's staff of engineers, physicists and chemists is primarily based in Gaithersburg, Md., and Boulder, Colo.
55% : Tax examiners and customer service representatives employed by the Internal Revenue Service report to regional offices across the country, including major centers in Memphis; Austin, Texas; and Ogden, Utah.
49% : It does not reveal the specific locations of staff members in many of its more high-profile subagencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol.
48% : They show employees based in every state and in thousands of cities and small towns across the country, far beyond Washington, D.C. The Department of Veterans Affairs -- the largest agency in the federal civilian work force outside of the Department of Defense -- employed more than 480,000 people as of March of last year.

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