I think right now whichever professions are disproportionately employed by the feds are having the worst job markets.

There are certainly a lot of economists who work for the feds and I imagine a bunch of them took the various buyouts or were terminated.

Normally there's something like a thousand economists on the job market, right? So, if there are even a hundred former feds on the market, it's a lot to absorb.

I'm not sure about the percentages for other areas, but this seems significant when you think of it as % decline.