EARLYBIRD: HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE WEB

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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 ...

May 15 FEDERAL EYE (WASHINGTON POST)

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 ...

May 14 FEDERAL EYE (WASHINGTON POST)

Immigration report may be right

The Heritage report on the costs of immigration holds reprehensible views, but reform will be very costly Frum says.

May 14 CNN POLITICS

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 ...

May 14 FEDERAL EYE (WASHINGTON POST)

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 ...

May 13 FEDERAL EYE (WASHINGTON POST)

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 ...

May 13 FEDERAL EYE (WASHINGTON POST)

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 ...

May 13 FEDERAL EYE (WASHINGTON POST)

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 ...

May 10 FEDERAL EYE (WASHINGTON POST)

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 ...

May 10 FEDERAL EYE (WASHINGTON POST)

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 ...

May 10 FEDERAL EYE (WASHINGTON POST)