Since the most recent recession began in December 2007, metropolitan Washington, D.C., has shed about 71,000 employees on nonfarm payrolls, the smallest job loss number among the nation’s 15 largest metropolitan areas. Fool analyst Nick Kapur recognizes that the federal government is already big -- and will likely only continue to get bigger.
Whatever your political views on Big Government, Kapur says, you can profit from the trend by looking to companies serving the federal government (Accenture
