Bill Would Give Feds $6,000 Loans During Shutdown
State Dept. Defends Move to Recall and Pay Furloughed Workers
IG: GSA Ignored Ethics Advice on Trump Hotel Lease
New Poll: Nearly Three-Quarters of Feds Oppose Shutdown
More Furloughed Feds File for Unemployment
Flash Poll: Government's AI Odyssey
Second Furlough Notice and Another Missed Paycheck Appear Likely for Shutdown Feds
Congress skips town with key deadlines pending for furloughed and excepted federal workers.
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Where Public Sector Union Membership Is Shrinking and Growing
Where Public Sector Union Membership Is Shrinking and Growing
Newly released employment numbers show a small decline last year in the ...
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Colorado Joins States Seeking to Boost Electric Vehicle Sales
Colorado Joins States Seeking to Boost Electric Vehicle Sales
Automakers are slow to sell EVs in places without zero emission vehicle ...
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Oversight
Trump’s New Science Adviser Arrived Just in Time for a Shutdown
Trump’s New Science Adviser Arrived Just in Time for a Shutdown
Science advocacy groups take turns imploring leaders to open agencies.
January 18
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DHS Pauses Most Contracting Deadlines Until After Shutdown Ends
DHS Pauses Most Contracting Deadlines Until After Shutdown Ends
The extensions only apply to seven department procurement offices and do ...
January 18
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Pay & Benefits
Labor Dept. Denies Request That Excepted Feds Be Eligible for Unemployment
Labor Dept. Denies Request That Excepted Feds Be Eligible for Unemployment
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had asked for the change to bring ...
January 18
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Nextgov
FAA Rule Would Let Drones Fly Over People and At Night Without a Waiver
FAA Rule Would Let Drones Fly Over People and At Night Without a Waiver
The move would greatly open the use of small drones but at least ...
January 18
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Flash Poll: Secure Mobility without Perimeters
Flash Poll: Secure Mobility without Perimeters
Government agencies are struggling to adapt their security architectures to the newly ...
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Let’s Make This the Last Shutdown. Please.
Let’s Make This the Last Shutdown. Please.
We can end this folly with a simple piece of legislation.
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Oversight
White House Widens Its Clampdown on Congressional Travel
White House Widens Its Clampdown on Congressional Travel
After cancellation of Pelosi trip, OMB instructs agency security teams to get ...
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Oversight
Lawmaker Warns Shutdown Will Stop SEC From Policing Bad Actors
Lawmaker Warns Shutdown Will Stop SEC From Policing Bad Actors
New House Financial Services Committee chairwoman's oversight agenda ...
January 18
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Pay & Benefits
Shutdown Roundup: The Ethics of Feds' GoFundMe Campaigns, a SmartBenefits Deadline Extension and More
Shutdown Roundup: The Ethics of Feds' GoFundMe Campaigns, a SmartBenefits Deadline Extension and More
Ethics rules on gifts could ...
January 18
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Oversight
Waiting for a Shutdown to End in Disaster
Waiting for a Shutdown to End in Disaster
Aides on Capitol Hill fear that a dramatic government failure may be the only thing to force ...
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ROUTE FIFTY
EARLYBIRD
This is the longest shutdown in US history
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Democrats shoot down Trump's proposal to end shutdown; Pelosi calls it 'unacceptable'
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Trump Offers Deportation Protections in Exchange for Wall Funding
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DACA, Dreamers, TPS? What are they, what do they have to do with Trump, the wall ...
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SPECIAL REPORTS
If the Shutdown Derails Your Finances, It Could Affect Your Security Clearance
Don’t panic, but don’t go on a shopping spree either. Money issues cause more clearance denials and revocations than all other issues combined.
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Federal Employees Did not Sign Up to be Shut Down
The current impasse reflects a pattern of mismanagement of public service talent under the Trump administration.
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Older Folks Were Most Likely To Share ‘Fake News’ In 2016
Surprisingly few Americans shared "fake news" on Facebook during the 2016 election season, but some of us were more likely to do so than others.
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Is the Federal Workforce Reaching Its Breaking Point?
The level of burnout across government may be approaching a crisis point. The cost is substantial and growing worse.
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PROMOTIONS
Artificial Intelligence Unleashed
How agencies can use AI to automate & augment operations to improve performance.
Modernization Nation: A look at updating the federal government's technology and operations
The push to modernize the government’s IT systems, across all its branches, is ramping up. In this ebook, we’ll discuss how policymakers have set the tone for IT modernization with objectives and directives and how agencies are attempting to meet them.
Government Data Detectives: How agency data shops are fighting fraud
As federal agencies turned to data analytics, they've been able to break up high-dollar fraud rings in the mail, health care and even prisons. This special report examines how successful scam-busting shops tap tools and talent to save taxpayers' money.
Software Enables Innovation
As policymakers in Washington continue to debate information technology strategy, IT professionals in federal agencies need to be ready to put it all into place to better serve the agency’s objectives and the public interest.
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