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Americans Still Like the Postal Service
A Forced 4-Day Weekend for Many Feds
No More Tax-Cheating Feds, Senators Say
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Amelia Gruber
Senior Editor
Amelia Gruber covered management and contracting for Government Executive for three years before becoming an editor. She also has worked as an editor at Roll Call newspaper and as a research assistant at the Urban Institute. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College, with a major in economics, and a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Hispanic representation in government rises -- barely
February 15, 2007 The percentage of Hispanics in federal jobs continues to rise slowly, but the number hired took a step backward last year, according to figures released Thursday. As of June 2006, Hispanics made up 7.5 percent of 1.7 million federal workers, up just slightly from 7.4 percent at the same time ...
Budget slates education, health programs for hefty cutbacks
February 9, 2007 Education and health programs were top targets for termination or steep cuts in President Bush's fiscal 2008 budget, according to details unveiled this week. Of 141 discretionary programs Bush recommended ending or scaling back significantly to save about $12 billion, 46 are run by the Education Department and 19 by ...
Transportation, security technology, food safety join high-risk list
January 31, 2007 Postal reform and single-family mortgage insurance and rental housing assistance programs have moved off a list of "high-risk" areas needing management improvements, the Government Accountability Office announced Wednesday. To get programs off the list, agencies must have a strategy to address problems and demonstrate progress on implementing it, said Comptroller ...
Lawmakers renew attempt to block private tax debt collection
January 25, 2007 Efforts to prevent the Internal Revenue Service from using private debt collectors are gaining momentum in the new Congress, with the introduction of legislation Wednesday in the House and last week in the Senate. The House bill (H.R. 695), offered by Reps. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Steve Rothman, D-N.J., ...
Union asks court to block federal internship program
January 24, 2007 Agencies are using a federal internship program in a way that undermines competitive hiring procedures in the government, a large federal employee union charged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The Office of Personnel Management has not placed enough limits on agencies' use of the Federal Career Intern Program, the National ...
House members urge pay parity, larger 2008 raise
January 22, 2007 Ten House members from the Washington area on Monday kicked off discussions over the 2008 federal pay raise by sending President Bush a letter calling for civilian-military parity. The lawmakers asked Bush to incorporate the principle of pay parity in his fiscal 2008 budget request, scheduled to be released Feb. ...
Ruling upholds results of DHS union election
January 18, 2007 A Federal Labor Relations Authority office on Wednesday rejected allegations of procedural flaws and bias in an election to determine union representation for about 20,000 Homeland Security Department employees. The FLRA's Washington, D.C., regional office found that the American Federation of Government Employees did not present substantial enough evidence to ...
OPM finalizes rule tying bonuses to performance
January 11, 2007 The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday issued final rules aimed at ensuring agencies link cash awards directly to job performance. The regulations remained largely unchanged from a draft version floated last summer, despite a number of comments expressing concern that bonuses could be influenced by bias or favoritism. Other ...
International fund outperforms other TSP options for 2006
January 4, 2007 Of the five basic funds in the Thrift Savings Plan, the one investing in international stocks posted the strongest returns for both last month and the whole of 2006. The international (I) fund earned 3.11 percent for December, and 26.32 percent for the year. The four remaining basic options in ...
Survey signals low morale among DHS agriculture specialists
December 14, 2006 Answers to open-ended questions on a fall survey suggest "morale issues" among agriculture specialists at the Homeland Security Department, according to an analysis released Thursday. Government Accountability Office officials said a question on what changes the specialists would like to see at work prompted 185 pages worth of responses -- ...
