Budget

  • Two chief human capital officers say Millenials - people born in 1980 or later - bring passion and enthusiasm to the federal workplace but also require guidance and mentorship.

    July 29, 2011
  • FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt gave Federal News Radio an update on the furloughs and disrupted construction projects as the partial FAA shutdown ended its first full week. Babbitt assailed the \"political fight\" in Congress that left the agency without funding beginning last Friday.

    July 29, 2011
  • The Postal Regulatory Commission is scheduling public hearings on the Postal Service\'s plan to consider shutting down nearly 3,700 post offices nationwide.

    July 29, 2011
  • Steve Bell, the senior director of the Economic Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the ramifications for agencies.

    July 29, 2011
  • Contractors fear late or nonexistent payment from the government if the debt ceiling is not raised and the U.S. government defaults, a number of industry experts have said recently. Contractors are required to continue work even if there is a delay in payment from the government.

    July 29, 2011
  • Your agency\'s data will have a lot more eyeballs on it very soon, get some advice to keep that data clean from Dermot O\'Mahony, Vice President of Market and Product Planning, LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

    July 28, 2011
  • The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing on the best way to dispose of nearly 90,000 vacant or underutilized federal properties. While some lawmakers see property sales as a way to generate cash, it\'s not clear how much the properties are actually worth.

    July 28, 2011
  • The Vice Chiefs cited 10 years of war and a high level of operational activity as the major drivers behind the Pentagon\'s readiness shortfall.

    July 27, 2011
  • How will the debt ceiling debate stalemate affect the nation\'s credit ratings? The Bipartisan Policy Center\'s Jay Powell gives his analysis.

    July 27, 2011
  • Democrats in the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure introduced a bill Tuesday that would fund the Federal Aviation Administration and end a furlough of 4,000 FAA when funding expired at midnight Friday.

    July 27, 2011
  • \"There\'s not a whole lot of talk about this, because it\'s just overcome by the whole debt ceiling crisis,\" says Mike MacDonald, regional vice president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. July 27, 2011

    July 27, 2011
  • Proposed changes to federal employees\' workers\' compensation program could result in lower benefits, testified unions and employee groups Tuesday at a Senate subcommittee hearing.

    July 26, 2011
  • Facing budget pressures and decreased demand from customers, the U.S. Postal Service identified 3,700 retail post office locations that could be closed. As potential replacements, USPS has proposed the use of \"village post offices,\" which would be operated by third-parties, such as local businesses.

    July 26, 2011
  • John Palguta of the Partnership for Public Service dispels the myth that feds have a better chance of dying than being fired from their workplace and gives data to support why recent reports are not entirely accurate.

    July 26, 2011