EARLYBIRD: HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE WEB
Roth-style investing in TSP continues to grow
Federal employees are increasingly taking to Roth-style investing in their retirement savings program, although Thrift Savings Plan accounts remain heavily ...
Defense Department expected to reduce furloughs to 11 days
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel will announce plans Tuesday afternoon to reduce the number of furlough days faced by the department’s 800,000 civilian workers ...
Immigration report may be right
The Heritage report on the costs of immigration holds reprehensible views, but reform will be very costly Frum says.
IRS released confidential info on conservative groups to ProPublica
ProPublica on Monday reported that the same IRS division that targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny during the 2012 election cycle provided the ...
White House orders look at pay equity inside government
President Obama has called for creation of a government-wide strategy “to address any gender pay gap in the Federal workforce,” focusing on how salaries are ...
Senate Democrats demanded stricter IRS standards for tax-exempt groups
A group of Senate Democrats, led by Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), complained to the IRS commissioner in 2012 that political groups were improperly claiming ...
Lingering questions about the IRS targeting of conservative groups
The Internal Revenue Service left Washington abuzz over the weekend with a Friday admission that it singled out conservative groups for special scrutiny when ...
IRS targeting of political groups might be one of agency’s ‘deadly sins’
The targeting of political organizations by the Internal Revenue Service is not only “absolutely inappropriate,” as the agency acknowledged Friday, but it also ...
NTEU wins election to represent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees
Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this week elected the National Treasury Employees Union to become the first labor group to represent ...
U.S. Postal Service posts $1.9 billion loss, despite efficiency efforts
Savings from efficiency efforts and increased revenues from some categories of business were not enough to prevent the U.S. Postal Service from posting a loss ...
The Vast Majority of IRS Employees Aren't Corrupt
GSA Mishandled Executive Bonuses
EIG 2013 as Told by Your Tweets
Infographic: Nominee Limbo
Will You Be Furloughed?
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
