Responding to a persistently high unemployment rate and vanishing tax revenue, the D.C. Council Tuesday is expected to make it much more difficult for non-District residents to net a job with the D.C. government.

As of December 2006, there were more Marylanders working for the District than D.C. residents – 11,657 vs. 10,043, according to the D.C. Office of Payroll and Retirement Service. Another 2,127 were from Virginia.