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Federal employees, especially scientists, often work in environments where technical judgment carries public consequences. The recent CNN report involving EPA scientists raises a d...
For federal employees, a government-issued phone is not personal space. It is federal property, controlled by agency IT rules, security policies, and ethics obligations. That is wh...
Federal employees have reason to pay close attention when the Government Accountability Office investigates access to agency databases. GAO is not a political commentator. It is Co...
If you are a federal employee, the past few days are not just political theater. They implicate civil service protections, paycheck stability, and your ability to raise concerns wi...
Most Americans trust that their Social Security information is protected by some of the strictest safeguards in the federal government. Recent court filings, however, reveal a trou...
A leaked Department of Justice memo has left many federal employees, especially those in corrections, law enforcement, and oversight roles, asking the same anxious question: What h...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has lost roughly a third of its workforce in just eight months. According to recent reporting, the Department of Health and Human Ser...
Since early September, reports have surfaced of U.S. military strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. The White House has justified the acti...
A New York Times story this week described how Black community leaders are holding their ground in a political climate that often treats their leadership as a threat. Reading it, I...
This week, Politico confirmed what many federal employees have been experiencing firsthand: sweeping staff cuts across the government. Nearly 200,000 federal workers are gone in 20...
Late Friday, Presidentially appointed economist Dr. Erika McEntarfer was removed as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)—just hours after releasing a jobs report the White ...
Late last night, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) canceled every major union contract covering more than 377,000 employees—nurses, doctors, benefits processors, and research...
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