内容摘要：Inside the faded vessel with a peeling label might be an ambitious social initiative considered too risky for partisan support, a sensible but dull measure to tweak a statute, or a lawmaker’s controversial hobby horse that their party wishes they’d stop talking about. The tin doesn’t judge.

Inside the faded vessel with a peeling label might be an ambitious social initiative considered too risky for partisan support, a sensible but dull measure to tweak a statute, or a lawmaker’s controversial hobby horse that their party wishes they’d stop talking about. The tin doesn’t judge.

Food and Drug Administration, Tempe, Ariz. (4,176 square feet)Internal Revenue Service National Office, Thousand Oaks, Calif. (9,362 square feet)

Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Tinley Park, Ill. (7,010 square feet)Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Topeka, Kan. (10,187 square feet)Indian Health Service-Bemidji, Traverse City, Mich. (798 square feet)

Farm Service Agency-County, Utuado, Puerto Rico (5,750 square feet)Mine Safety Health Administration, Vacaville, Calif. (11,014 square feet)

National Park Service, Ventura, Calif. (10,855 square feet)

Internal Revenue Service National Office, Visalia, Calif. (6,936 square feet)Federal employees make up 7.6% of the workforce in Alabama’s 5th District, which includes Huntsville and is represented by Republican Rep. Dale Strong. The area encompasses NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, which has had a role in rocket engineering and U.S. space exploration efforts from the Saturn rockets integral to moon missions, the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station’s laboratory modules.

The data examined here doesn’t pertain directly to military jobs. Thousands of civilian government employees across the country work in areas near or attached to military installations.Alaska’s sole U.S. House member, Rep. Nick Begich, represents a state with a total federal worker percentage of 6.3%.

Scott Goldsmith, an economist at the University of Alaska Anchorage, has described the state’s economy as a “three-legged stool” kept balanced by three components: the oil and gas industry, the federal government, and then all other industries combined.The federal government manages a significant amount of land in Alaska. Workers are employed by the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Service, among others.