Tom Temin Commentary

Retirement

Another column on retirement. This time, I’m joining you

Your faithful radio anchor and columnist has a year before his own retirement and will chronicle the practical parts of the planning.

Federal Report

Congressional staff, Congress, minibus, funding, budget

Understatement: Congress doesn’t function properly

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Planning on retirement? Beware of killer inflation

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election, presidential transitions, AP Poll Election 2024 Democracy, White House, Biden administration

With the election coming up, no wonder we’re miserable

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Welcome to the 2% year: Not as much for fewer people

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Courtesy of: https://www.justice.gov/archives/olp/staff-profile/former-assistant-attorney-general-office-legal-policy-hampton-y-dellinger

Hampton Yeats Dellinger

For federal employee justice, some continuity in leadership

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Shefali Kapadia

Bob Leins of the National Institute of Transition Planning

We salute a long running voice for federal employees

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Bureau of Prisons, BOP

BOP staffing problems roll on and on

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TSP

Maybe you want that Walmart greeter’s vest after retirement

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The new DHS headquarters, which GSA is managing, includes green roofs, and other green buildings features.
green roofs, green buildings, St Elizabeths, GSA

Telework redux: A day in the life of one D.C. office

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records backlog in a file cabinet

Government sometimes looks like a backlog backwater

Tom Temin Commentary

Social Security

New Social Security telework policy just might be the blueprint for everybody

Commissioner Martin O’Malley wants top managers in 4 days a week, but it gets looser the farther out you go

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Would you take a pay cut for more telework?

Survey reveals people really treasure work-life balance, even if it meant hypothetically less salary

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Election 2024 Trump Colorado Insurrection Amendment

Unelected bureaucrats do the darndest things

Unelected civil servants mostly work to stay with the law and administrative norms. The Chevron challenge is complicated.

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