Commentary
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The S and I funds of the TSP had bad years in 2018 but bounced back big time last year. Mike Causey asked financial planner Arthur Stein why?
January 21, 2020 -
While there is a lot of interest in those who are self-made Thrift Savings Plan millionaires, the fact is most investors will never hit seven-figure status.
January 20, 2020 -
A sexual assault allegation from inside a VA hospital has led to rancor among officials.
January 20, 2020 -
In the quarter century since Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a national holiday a lot has changed, maybe more than at almost any time in our history.
January 20, 2020 -
While most agencies currently use multiple cloud platforms, 75% report that managing multiple clouds will be a top challenge over the next five years.
January 17, 2020 -
Suppose you or one of your kids wants to go, or return to college this summer or fall, but your budget needs a little transfusion, like funds from an outside source.
January 17, 2020 -
DHS morale numbers are unlikely to rise without significant reforms on multiple levels.
January 16, 2020 -
But the one way to anger many feds is to tell them or remark that they are lucky to have such a good pension — then stand back.
January 16, 2020 -
Draft rumors aside, here's a few real facts about the Selective Service System.
January 15, 2020 -
Thanks to the booming stock market the number of federal-postal workers with $1 million or more Thrift Savings Plan accounts jumped to 49,620 at the end of 2019.
January 14, 2020 -
Agencies will likely miss out on the symbiotic relationship between performance and engagement. Strategically, the better approach is to integrate these two critically important human capital processes by making performance management the centerpiece of the employee engagement strategy.
January 13, 2020 -
The Census Bureau pays enumerators less so for the work than for where they do the work.
January 13, 2020 -
Many people decided to ride out the Great Recession so they could miss the downside and return to the TSP's C, S and I stock funds when things got better. Eleven years later, some still haven’t returned.
January 13, 2020 -
The Coalition for Government Procurement has been a strong supporter of an unpriced schedule in the name of efficiency.
January 10, 2020 -
Given GSA Administrator Emily Murphy's goal of transparency, the Coalition for Government Procurement says it was surprised by the recent disappearance of GSA’s online staff directory from the agency’s website.
January 10, 2020