Federal Report
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The White House wants to freeze federal pay, raise employee contributions to the pension fund and cut benefits when they retire.
March 07, 2018 -
What are the top reasons federal workers are retiring in droves? Is it fear and loathing of the Trump administration, changes in the stock market or something else?
March 06, 2018 -
Are federal workers retiring in larger numbers? Are we on the verge of the so-called retirement tsunami that experts have been predicting for years? Find out when Federal News Radio reporter Nicole Ogrysko joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn. March 7, 2018
March 06, 2018 -
How would you like to find your name on a public list of half a million to 750,000 other civil servants who have been judged NONESSENTIAL to government operations?
March 05, 2018 -
Many financial planners urge clients investing for retirement to take the long-view. For many investors that is easier said than done.
March 02, 2018 -
It's a scientific fact that 62 percent of all federal workers in the Washington area born before 1994 suffer from advanced déjà vu syndrome.
March 01, 2018 -
Politicians debating whether and how to protect kids from violence at school just have to look outside their home or office windows.
February 28, 2018 -
If somebody said your federal pension plan needs $152 billion in nip and tuck surgery, would you be alarmed? Maybe you should be, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.
February 27, 2018 -
Most people retiring from the federal government are at least as well off as their retired private-sector friends and neighbors, in many cases better off.
February 26, 2018 -
When it comes to sexual harassment at the office, are things better or worse than when you joined the federal government?
February 26, 2018 -
The fund where federal workers have most of their retirement nest egg returned 2.3 percent last year, while the fund where they have the least amount invested returned 25.4 percent. What's wrong with this picture?
February 22, 2018 -
Politicians up for reelection in November may want to back off efforts to fold, staple or mutilate federal civil service retirement programs.
February 21, 2018 -
Did the recent stock market nosedive send you moving money from the stock indexed C and S funds into the G fund for safety? If so, was that a smart move?
February 20, 2018 -
Did the stock market mini-correction a few weeks back make you nervous? Did it cause you to shift money in the stock-indexed C, S and I funds into the "safety" of the Treasury securities G fund? Was that wise? Find out when financial planner Arthur Stein joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn. February 21, 2018
February 20, 2018 -
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey tackles the #MeToo movement that has taken over all industries, including the federal government.
February 19, 2018