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Cost pool considerations for remote and multi-state employees

Labor shortages and the desires of employees for a more balanced life are opening the door, now more than ever, for fully remote work options. This can potentially lead to a team of multi-state workers.

Big Data

Edge computing enables NOAA to push workloads closer to public consumers, not just field researchers
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Management

US outlines effects of withdrawing land from oil drilling

People

Meet Dale Haney, the White House groundskeeper for 50 years

Defense

Military families' housing benefits lag as rents explode

Agency Oversight

Researchers ask Census to stop controversial privacy method

Pay

Biden urges private companies to help narrow gender pay gap

Labeled with asbestos and lead warnings, sheeting covers rubble from demolished barracks at Fort Ord on Thursday, April 29, 2021, in Fort Ord, Calif. In 1990, four years before it began the process of closing for active military training, Fort Ord was added to the Environmental Protection Agency’s list of the most polluted places in the nation. Included in that pollution were dozens of chemicals, some known to cause cancer, found in the base’s drinking water. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Veterans Affairs

What Lies Beneath: Vets worry polluted base made them ill

Michael Stockwell, Aiden Cruz

Army

National Guard deploys for new emergency: Teacher shortages

FILE - A man walks in front of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Jan. 7, 2015, in New Orleans. A U.S. appeals court has declined for now to allow President Joe Biden's administration to require COVID-19 vaccinations for federal employees. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled 2-1 Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022 to maintain a block on the mandate that a Texas-based federal judge issued on Jan. 21. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman, file)

Workforce

Appeals court declines to overturn judge's ban on federal employee vaccine mandate

FILE - In this March 31, 2021 file photo, traffic moves along the Interstate 76 highway in Philadelphia. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, Oct. 19, announced his intention to nominate Steven Cliff, who has served as deputy administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration since February, to become the agency's administrator. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

People

Former Calif. regulator tapped to run highway safety agency

This Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, photo shows a Social Security card in Tigard, Ore. Millions of retirees on Social Security will get a 5.9% boost in benefits for 2022. The biggest cost-of-living adjustment in 39 years follows a burst in inflation as the economy struggles to shake off the drag of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Benefits

Social Security checks getting big boost as inflation rises

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2020, file photo people watch as the sun sets from the Presidio in San Francisco. Rising inflation is expected to lead to a sizeable increase in Social Security's annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for 2022. Exactly how much will be revealed Wednesday morning after a Labor Department report on inflation during September, a data point used in the final calculation. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Retirement

EXPLAINER: Why Social Security COLA will jump next year

FILE- In this June 19, 2020, file photo, protesters chant as they march after a Juneteenth rally at the Brooklyn Museum, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Management

Biden signs bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday

This updated handout photo provided by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 shows a signed copy of Emancipation Proclamation. The Library, in Springfield, Ill., will mark Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, by displaying the rare signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation. The copy of the proclamation that's signed by Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward will be displayed between June 15 and July 6. The original document is kept in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum photo via AP)

Congress

Congress approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2019, file photo, U.S Army troops training to serve as instructors participate in the new Army combat fitness test at the 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade compound at Fort Bragg, N.C. Army leaders are kicking out the requirement that soldiers do at least one leg tuck as part of the new physical fitness test, after finding many troops — particularly women — were unable to do the exercise that requires them to raise their knees while hanging from a bar. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Army

Army revamps fitness exam, kicks out leg tuck requirement

Debra Haaland

People

Haaland OK'd at Interior, 1st Native American Cabinet head

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2005 file photo, trays of printed social security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management services facility in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower, File)

Retirement

Retiree checks to rise 1.3% in 2021 amid coronavirus fallout

Donald Trump

Government News

Military chief: Wrong to walk with Trump past park protest

Blake Dremann, Alivia Stehlik, Jennifer Peace, Patricia King, Akira Wyatt

Defense

New Pentagon transgender rule sets limits for troops

In this Jan. 8, 2019, photo, U.S Army troops in training to become instructors, participate in the new Army combat fitness test at the 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade compound at Fort Bragg, N.C. The new test is designed to be a more accurate test of combat readiness than the present requirements. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Army

Army aims for more combat-ready troops with new fitness test

MULE RIDERS

Management

Grand Canyon celebrates 100 years as a national park in 2019

FILE- In this June 3, 2009, file photo a group takes a tour of the Antietam National Battlefield during a leadership training seminar in Sharpsburg, Md. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced Wednesday, July 5, 2017, that President Donald Trump’s salary, which he promised to give away, will go toward two restoration projects at Antietam National Battlefield. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

Government Shutdown

With shutdown, national parks visitors are on their own

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