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by zdragnar 601 days ago
Given that the DOD is the largest employer in the USA at nearly a million people, there's almost certainly some small amount going on at a minimum.
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Walmart alone employs 1.6 million people: https://corporate.walmart.com/about/location-facts
The 770,000 number for the DOD is just the civilian employee count. It becomes the "largest" when you also include the 2.1 million active service members of the military. I definitely could have worded that better.