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Two Black federal employees, two totally different experiences

A one-time hospital orderly and a Coast Guard officer – can this be the same federal government?

Tom Temin Commentary

Schedule F: A sword with two edges

Tom Temin Commentary

IRS details strategy for replacing its most ancient computer code

Tom Temin Commentary

It’s getting colder and darker. So lighten up (financially)!

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Time for a little human centered design

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How to deal with rising employee loneliness

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The diversity and inclusion training debate

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Capitol Hill flag

Pols debate pandemic. Feds do something about it

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Federal IT appeals to the kids

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Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf appears during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to examine Department of Homeland Security personnel deployments to recent protests on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, in Washington. (Toni Sandys/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Homeland Security IG swims away from this bait

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Golfers play on the golf course which would usually be used as a car park for Wimbledon tennis tournament visitors, in Wimbledon in London, Monday, June 29, 2020. The 2020 Wimbledon Tennis Championships, due to start Monday were cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

For many fed-related charities, golf’s on without the banquet

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Donald Trump

Mr. President, tear down this tax deferral plan!

The deferral plan won’t save anybody one dollar and will come back to bite people who spend their windfalls

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In this April 3, 2020, photo, a man wearing a face mask due to COVID-19 concerns stands outside a check cashing service center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. While millions of U.S. workers have already received a quick relief payment from the federal treasury through direct deposit, millions of others without traditional bank accounts must wait weeks for paper checks. Advocates for the poor say this is an opportunity to get many of those who are unbanked into the formal financial system. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Modernization candidate: Federal payment system

If the government is in the habit of sending people money during emergencies, why not do it in time for the height of the need?

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In this, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 photo, workers unload boxes of flowers from a Boeing 747 cargo jet after arriving from Colombia, at Miami International Airport in Miami. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection port director Christopher Maston, roughly 20 percent of the annual flower imports to Miami arrive just in the four weeks before Valentine's Day. The delicate cargo flies in on 95 to 100 daily flights, mostly from Colombia and Ecuador, compared with a dozen or so daily flights the rest of the year, according to Border Protection. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

When agency management and the IG disagree

Tom Temin Commentary

You’d think CBP and ICE would welcome stronger oversight of controversial seizures and forfeitures.

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