Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

(AP Photo/Mike Groll)FILE - This April 22, 2014, file photo shows an employment application form on a table at a job fair in Hudson, N.Y. Middle-age white Americans with limited education are increasingly dying younger, on average, than other middle-age U.S. adults, a trend driven by their dwindling economic opportunities, research by two Princeton University economists has found. The economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, argue in a paper released Thursday, March 23, 2017, that the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with high school degrees or less has triggered broad problems for this group. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Biden administration tops infrastructure hiring targets, eyes broader hiring reforms

Agencies have so far made hires for 6,099 BIL-related positions, exceeding the administration’s infrastructure hiring target of 5,800 by the end of fiscal…

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Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) speaks to reporters in front of the Capitol building about workforce challenges for federal wildland firefighters. Photo by Drew Friedman, Federal News Network.

15 weeks until federal firefighters face ‘pay cliff,’ warn Forest Service, Interior officials

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(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, a sign on a door of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. Long-running research projects credited with pivotal discoveries about the harm that pesticides, air pollution and other hazards pose to children are in jeopardy or shutting down because the Environmental Protection Agency will not commit to their continued funding, researchers say.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

With low staffing and high workloads, EPA’s large budget proposal is a ‘catch-up game,’ administrator says

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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Cuyahoga Community College Metropolitan Campus, Thursday, May 27, 2021, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden plans federal pay compression fix, streamlined hiring in FY 24 budget

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CHCO Council looks to scale, replicate successful pilots for federal hiring reform

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600 EPA employees seek more promotion opportunities for tackling ‘more complex work’

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FILE - A child rinses a toothbrush at a shelter in San Francisco, Calif., June 18, 2019. Tap water is subject to a rash of government standards but people in many communities across the U.S. remain exposed to unhealthy drinking water. A Supreme Court decision on EPA regulation of carbon emissions from power plants this past week could make it harder to expand federal regulation in other areas. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Water water everywhere: EPA using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds to make it safer to drink

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Under infrastructure law, federal firefighters to see increase in pay

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