Federal Report

  • Federal News Radio's Tom Temin, Nicole Ogrysko, and Jory Heckman join host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn to discuss President Trump's State of the Union address, plans to decentralize federal operations based on the D.C. area, and the outlook for feds in 2018. January 31, 2018

    January 30, 2018
  • The number of federal workers with million dollar retirement accounts jumped from 16,000 in August to almost 24,000 by the end of 2017. So what happened?

    January 29, 2018
  • How do you go from being a janitor at the Veterans Affairs Department to one of the growing number of millionaires in Uncle Sam's TSP 401(k) plan club?

    January 26, 2018
  • When many federal workers consider retirement they also look for a place with no sales or state taxes.

    January 25, 2018
  • Although the Saturday-Sunday-Monday mini-shutdown is history, it's impact may be around a long, long time, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.

    January 24, 2018
  • What led to the this week's government shutdown and what needs to happen in the next three weeks to avoid another one? Find out when Greg Stanford, director of Government Affairs at the Federal Managers Association, joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn. January 24, 2018

    January 23, 2018
  • Monday was a crazy day for hundreds of thousands of federal workers, military personnel, government contractors and those who cover, feed and house them.

    January 23, 2018
  • Downsizing teams assigned to drain the swamp in different agencies can't understand why so many employees turn up their noses when offered a $25,000 buyout.

    January 22, 2018
  • Want a sure fire way to tell a friend, neighbor or coworkers politics? Just ask him, or her, who caused the government shutdown.

    January 20, 2018
  • Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says Defense has been offering $40,000 buyouts since last year, but finding anybody who actually got the bigger bucks is tough.

    January 18, 2018
  • Many well-intentioned but unsophisticated people living beyond the beltway don't understand how important shutdown threats are to Washington-based politicians, lawyers, lobbyists and journalists.

    January 17, 2018
  • Timing the stock market, like breaking even in Atlantic City or Vegas, isn't easy. To properly time the market you need to know when to buy and when to sell, and to do that you need to predict events.

    January 16, 2018
  • How did the TSP perform in 2017? What should you be doing to grow your retirement nest egg? Certified financial planner Arthur Stein answers those questions when he joined host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn radio show. January 17, 2017

    January 16, 2018
  • Just before the turn of the century experts predicted a brain drain, a tidal wave of retirements that would leave Uncle Sam less intelligent than a bag of hammers.

    January 15, 2018
  • If you’re working today, don’t feel bad. It just means you’re doing work that’s needed, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.

    January 12, 2018