Many Feds Face Furloughs Twice
Lawmakers Push Retroactive Furlough Pay
How Long Has the Shutdown Lasted?
In Focus: Who Faces Furloughs?
No TSP Contributions During a Shutdown
How Contractors Might Weather a Shutdown
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Mapping the 'Geography' of the Internet
September 10, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
In case you didn’t know, muscle-car lovers have a thriving Internet community. Twitter users like @HookupMyRide and @CorvetteBlogger are among the chattiest sports-car enthusiasts, tweeting links and striking up conversations with other fans of fast cars. The influential drivers of the muscle-car blogosphere stick to what they like; they mostly ...
Can Twitter Chatter Get Obamacare Defunded?
August 30, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Buried deep in Twitter's archives, the first users of "Obamacare" symbolize a fundamental divide in the Twitter universe: @WSJopinion, the Wall Street Journal's opinion team, and @victoria_29, a lover of NASCAR from "God's Country-Texas." Do the @victoria_29s of the world have the power to affect national policies on topics like ...
SEC Chair Mary Jo White Is Edna Mode From The Incredibles
August 8, 2013 Mary Jo White's SEC is out to fight crime. This week, the Securities Exchange Commission and the Justice Department filed separate lawsuits in North Carolina against Bank of America and two of its subsidiaries, claiming that the company defrauded its investors when it sold them $855 million worth of "toxic ...
Unsexy Ways to Cut Defense Spending
June 27, 2013 Cutting jobs. Closing bases. Reducing health care benefits for service members. On a list of policies to reform defense spending, these would rank near the top in their potential to rub the American public the wrong way. But the hard truth, says former undersecretary of defense Michèle Flournoy, is that ...
Ex-Government Official: The Private Sector Is Threatening Your Privacy
June 21, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Former Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz spent a career advocating more thorough protection of consumer information from inquiring private sector eyes. So perhaps it's no surprise that even in light of the recent shocking revelations about government surveillance of U.S. citizens' phone andemail traffic, he thinks companies pose an ...
