内容摘要：Sam Earle, left, and his wife, Tori, watch their daughter, Novalie, swing in their backyard Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Lakeland, Fla. Novalie was born through an embryo adoption. “God can use everything to His glory,” says Sam, 30. “There’s certainly an aspect that you consider with IVF: the ethics of freezing more embryos than you need. … But for families who struggle with infertility, it’s a beautiful opportunity.” (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

Sam Earle, left, and his wife, Tori, watch their daughter, Novalie, swing in their backyard Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Lakeland, Fla. Novalie was born through an embryo adoption. “God can use everything to His glory,” says Sam, 30. “There’s certainly an aspect that you consider with IVF: the ethics of freezing more embryos than you need. … But for families who struggle with infertility, it’s a beautiful opportunity.” (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

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.