Crypto News: City hall is hiring fired federal workers

The US Department of Health and Human Services is gearing up to cut 10,000 jobs, with dismissals beginning Tuesday. Even more cuts are coming across the federal workforce, on top of the tens of thousands of employees who have already been laid off or placed on leave, or who have left on their own. For local governments, the Trump administration's firing spree presents an opportunity to close long-standing staffing gaps in their own offices.

States, counties and cities are holding job fairs and directing hiring ads at former federal workers, whose expertise can be particularly valuable to them. The nonprofit Work for America has also seen a surge in signups for their program connecting civil servants to jobs at the local level. But matching worker skills — many of which are highly specialized — to local needs is a challenge, contributor Patrick Sisson reports. Today on CityLab: Local Governments Vie for Fired Federal Workers

— Linda Poon

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