Commentary
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The longer the shutdown goes, the more nerves fray. It's downright crabby out there.
January 16, 2019 -
Many feds, young, old or retired, invested heavily in the stock-indexed C, S and I funds are nervous about their Thrift Savings Plans. We asked financial planner Arthur Stein what’s going on.
January 16, 2019 -
Chris Niedermayer, the senior knowledge officer at BRMi, detailed the steps agencies should take to implement robotic process automation.
January 15, 2019 -
The politicians, who are still getting paid, assured civil servants — those forced to stay home and those required to work — they will get back pay someday.
January 15, 2019 -
Mike Hettinger, the president and managing principal of the Hettinger Strategy Group, makes the case for why Congress should consider a 20-year-old bill from former Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.).
January 14, 2019 -
Smartphones and other "cool" gadgets may have killed off what came before them, but now they are starting to show their age.
January 14, 2019 -
Abraham Grungold, a Florida-based U.S. Postal Service employee and financial coach shares his guide for getting through a prolonged government shutdown.
January 14, 2019 -
There are many benefits associated with ensuring competition, but recent reform proposals for commercial e-Commerce raise concerns about whether competition will continue to be leveraged for agency purchasers.
January 11, 2019 -
For some feds it's another day under political house arrest. Their job is figuring out how to accomplish certain necessary chores such as paying the rent, mortgage or putting food on the table.
January 11, 2019 -
The shutdown has created a kaleidoscopic of open, sort-of-open and closed federal operations. As it spins, the effects spread wider and wider.
January 10, 2019 -
If something bad happens it’s because his or her political opponent, or opposition party, allowed, encouraged or otherwise made the bad event inevitable.
January 10, 2019 -
Congress should eliminate the need for back pay by paying federal workers during a lapse of appropriations.
January 09, 2019 -
A furloughed federal employee going through their fifth shutdown over the last 30 years explains the deeper impact of the lapse in funding.
January 09, 2019 -
Regardless of age, experience, grade, location or job federal workers today fall into one of two categories, neither of which is good.
January 09, 2019 -
Although still a couple of days short of the record set in 1995-96 for the longest shutdown, the ongoing Great Wall of Mexico government shutdown is getting a lot more attention than its predecessors.
January 07, 2019