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What the Trump administration’s mass layoffs mean for federal workers in Connecticut

Season 1 Episode 22 | 52m 06s

Thousands of U.S. Government employees could be out of a job, according to a “best guess” from a Wells Fargo economist. This has big-time ramifications for Connecticut…and the roughly 19,000 federal workers living here. This hour, how federal workers who’ve been let go are processing massive job cuts as government agencies are dismantled.

Aired: 03/11/25
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