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Open season, Medicare part B, and job cuts

Host Mike Causey will talk about the big issues facing federal employees with NARFE's David Snell and Federal Times staff writer Stephen Losey.
November 9, 2011

Tags: Mike Causey , Your Turn , David Snell , NARFE , Federal Times , Stephen Losey , Open Season , Medicare part B , federal retirement , DoD , Air Force , Congressional supercommittee , budget battle

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Air Force gives and takes away thousands of civilian jobs

Air Force subtracts 9,000 managerial jobs, while adding 5,900 positions in areas it considers key to its mission.

Tags: Air Force , Michael Donley , DoD , workforce , Air Force Materiel Command

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Hiring Freeze Hangover

If there is a federal hiring freeze, how will it affect your agency, your operation and your job? What are the odds that you and your agency might be exempt? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says that if the past is prologue they may be better than you think.

Tags: pay and benefits , Mike Causey , cutbacks , hiring freeze , workforce

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Thanks For Your Service: P.S. You're Fired!

To make an omelette you have to break eggs, right? Using that recipe as his guide, the Speaker of the House says as many as 200,000 federal workers may have to go to help trim the deficit. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says this puts him in the running for two prestigious, competing awards.

Tags: pay and benefits , Mike Causey ,

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Read This, Save $146.4 Billion!

So how do you sell something to Congress and the public? You must make sure that the numbers you present look good...even if they don't make sense. Thanks to a sharp-eyed reader, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey is now in possession of the magic numbers formula and if you read today's column you can save yourself $124.6 billion.

Tags: pay and benefits , Mike Causey , federal spending , furloughs ,

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More area online job postings as economy slowly recovers

The new year isn't only looking brighter from increased daylight, but the slowly recovering economy is also yielding a growing number of area jobs.

Tags: job creation , job creation data , job growth , unemployment , unemployment rate , Veronica Robinson , Paul D. Shinkman , jobless , Jobless numbers , joblessness , Lockheed Martin , SAIC

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More USPS red ink to lead to bloodletting

The U.S. Postal Service has promised one approach to shrinking its continuing losses: Keep cutting jobs. Postal's 2011 financial plan calls for elimination of 50 million work hours, or about 25,000 jobs.

Tags: pay and benefits , management , USPS , US Postal Service , post office

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