Oh, by the way, the numbers of layoffs are probably higher than that estimate.
Harry Holzer, a nonresident senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings Institute and a public policy professor at Georgetown, told Business Insider that he wasn't surprised by the Challenger findings, given the reported scale of the layoffs.
"They might even understate the cuts to federal grantees and contractors, on top of the federal employee terminations," he said.