Microeconomics
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Author: Campbell R. McConnell, Stanley L. Brue, Sean Masaki Flynn Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 20, Problem 6DQ
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The difference in the top two categories of federal employment from the top two categories of local and state employment.
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