Tom Trabucco from the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board joins us to discsuss everything TSP. Plus, Sean Reilly from the Federal Times gives us the latest on cuts coming to the U.S. Postal Service. August 31, 2011
If the federal thrift savings plan is so great why do so many people hate it. And how come insiders are always looking for ways to get a piece of the TSP action, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wonders, or an account of their own?
The government is about to launch a new diversity initiative. So what does that mean? Apparently, it depends on who you ask, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Americans have faced lots of natural disasters this year but now Washington and other major federal centers are suffering the impact of an annual mass-migration that brings both joy and despair. Mike Causey reports, literally, from the eye of the storm.
Federal employees with the Agriculture Department developed the variety of turkey that many of us choose for our Thanksgiving feast, but Congress is working on a new model that may reverse things and carve up civil servants, postal workers and retirees at the same time, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
How do you follow an act like an earthquake? Well, wherever you are, the government did very well and everything seems to be okay, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Host Mike Causey will talk about TSP investments with CBS MarketWatch columnist Alan Roth. He will also discuss the status of federal buyouts with Federal Times editor Steve Losey, and senior reporter Sean Reilly. August 2, 2011
Should there be a dress code in federal offices? Can you imagine 350 lb. president William Howard Taft in a speedo bathing suit? What does one have to do with the other ... Inquiring minds want to know, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
How do you improve diversity in government when personnel budgets are being cut and the largest, and most diverse agency plans to slash its workforce, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wonders. The answer: Creative accounting and buyouts.
Tired of the steady stream of news and speculation about pay freezes, buyouts, layoffs, watered-down pensions and eroding benefits? Take a break. Look around you and be amazed because it\'s time, and there is no escape for you, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. The thongs are coming!
Federal workers won\'t be getting a pay raise in January but federal retirees are likely to get a cost of living adjustment in the neighborhood of 3.5 percent ... So what\'s to prevent people from retiring to get their COLA? Mike Causey explains why it won\'t work.
Chances are your federal agency is going to be down-sized or right-sized in the very near future, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. So what does that mean? And how to you keep your head (and your job) while all this is going on?
Federal Times senior writers Steve Losey and Sean Reilly look at the laundry list of hits feds and retirees may be asked to take and what it would mean to your time in government, your pay and your pension.
Thanks to the pay freeze and an increasingly hostile Congress, many federal and postal workers said they\'d retire in a heartbeat if Uncle Sam would make them an offer, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey reports. So what are the odds...
What do you do when your paycheck comes up short, to the tune of 50 percent short. It\'s happening to some federal workers, but there is a life-line, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.