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Investing - The Numbers Game

If you are a TSP investor, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says there are two ways of looking at the stock market: one of them tells you that March was the best month we've had in a long time, the other proves that things are really going to pot.

Tags: TSP , Mike Causey , Dow Jones , investing

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Security trumps prosperity

Grab onto financial happiness with both hands.

Tags: TSP , investing , Princeton University , Arthur Stein

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Tobacco may change your TSP

Getting to the heart (and lungs) of the matter

Tags: TSP , Thrift Savings Plan , Henry Waxman , tobacco , Steve Buyer , FDA , Harm Reduction Center

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DoD, OPM to review NSPS

The Department of Defense and the Office of Personnel Management have will be reviewing the National Security Personnel System.

Tags: NSPS , DoD , OPM , William Lynn , John Gage , American Federation of Government Employees

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Retirees Get One-Shot $$$

Millions of retired federal and military people are in line to get a one-time $250 payment or tax credit for this year. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey explains how it is supposed to work and who should be excited by the news.

Tags: retirees , stimulus , NARFE , Jill Crissman , Arthur Stein , TSP , Your Turn , FERS , sick leave , Jim Moran , Frank Wolf , CSRS , H.R. 958

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OPM to help CHCOs implement stimulus bill

The Office of Personnel Management will host an interagency meeting of human resource managers to discuss potential approaches to ensuring agencies have enough resources to implement the Recovery Act.

Tags: Kathie Ann Whipple , OPM , CHCO , Recovery Act , stimulus , mngt

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Number of DHS contractors 'unacceptable'

Sens. Lieberman and Collins want more information on how many contractors DHS has and what type of work they are doing. Agency has asked its components to reevaluate their human capital plans to ensure they have the right mix.

Tags: contracting , Janet Napolitano , Joseph Lieberman , Susan Collins , Richard Spires , Elaine Duke , Clair McCaskill , DHS , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , federal workforce , contractor workforce

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In search of cybersecurity watchdogs

A recent flurry of cyberattacks on federal government computer networks has raised awareness of the urgent need for more cybersecurity experts.

Tags: tech , mngt , cybersecurity , Partnership for Public Service , Max Stier , ODNI , Ron Sanders , DoJ , Vance Hitch , Max Cacas , Booz Allen Hamilton

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Inch-by-inch to DoD-VA health record interoperability

A House subcommittee gets a progress report on the effort to reach "electronic health information interoperability" as an important legally-mandated deadline looms.

Tags: Max Cacas , technology , House Veterans Affairs Committee , Veterans Health Records , Greg Timberlake , GAO , Valerie Melvin , Harry Mitchell , Phil Roe , Zack Space

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A turning point for NSPS

Defense Business Board convenes a second day of hearings on NSPS, the controversial pay-for-performance program at the Department of Defense. Members of the public, DoD staff and supervisors will follow six experts who, on Thursday, defended and attacked NSPS.

Tags: Don Hale , AFGE , U.S. Military Academy , Brad Bunn , NSPS , DoD , Richard Brown , National Federation of Federal Employees

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