Where would D.C. be without the feds?

The federal government accounts for about one-third of the jobs in the District but is still outpacing the private sector as the biggest driver of employment growth in the region, a newreports shows.

The District’s job growth during the last three months of 2010 accounted for more than one-quarter of the jobs gained in the entire Washington area — and many of D.C.’s new jobs came from the feds.