Recent employment numbers in metro Washington, DC, look like good news for Main Street America: Job growth in the nation’s capital has slowed.

The metro area added less than 50,000 jobs over the entire past year — compared to 60,000 every month in 2016, the last year under President Barack Obama.

Yes, many federal employees do good work, and not all the lobbyists, consultants and other “Beltway Bandits” who fill out the DC labor force are a bane on the nation.

But far too many are takers and fakers who get in the way of the makers.

Cancerous growth of the federal government comes at the expense of the rest of America. A truly booming Washington typically means unwise new burdens on the private sector and a host of other government actions that favor the well-connected at the expense of everyone who doesn’t spend time and money working the system.

So it’s no accident that DC’s unemployment rate recently rose to 3.8 percent while the nationwide rate hit a 17-year low of 4.1 percent as the US economy grew by 313,000 new jobs in February alone.

Some point to the two recent government shutdowns as driving DC’s doldrums. Others finger the many high-level executive branch slots left empty thanks to Senate Democrats’ concerted delays in confirming President Trump’s nominees.

Whatever the cause, Washington’s slowdown combines with Trump’s regulatory rollback and tax cuts to make the outlook for America much rosier.

Pray that it keeps up.