With the economy so bad now, these blatant public displays of waste and excess in taxpayer-subsidized vehicles highlight a careless disregard for public funds and how they are spent.
Joseph A. Beaudoin | Posted 05.04.2012
Even though you don't hear about their work every day, that's not to say you've never heard of some of America's federal employees! Who are these famous former feds?
Reuters | Posted 05.03.2012
By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 2 (Reuters) - Alabama's bankrupt Jefferson County is laying off more government w...
Reuters | Posted 04.09.2012
By Lisa Lambert April 8 (Reuters) - Since 2009, the city of Chesapeake, tucked up against the Great Dismal Swamp in southern Virginia,...
Reuters | Posted 04.29.2012
(Adds comments) By Jim Christie SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Stockton, California's city council approved a plan l...
Steven Cohen | Posted 04.21.2012
We've experienced a three-decade long attack on government. While this may have had the effect of constraining unchecked power, it has also started to destroy critical government capacities. This has been especially true at the local level.
The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 01.08.2012
Mitt Romney isn't getting his facts straight. Speaking to workers at a steel fabrication plant on Monday, Romney, clad in his class-crossing plaid ...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.07.2012
Federal workers make more than a quarter less than private sector employees doing similar jobs, according to a recent study. Federal employees mak...
Linda E. Brooks Rix | Posted 11.28.2011
Despite a dire economic situation with enormous odds stacked against us, our government is seriously dumbing-down its own financial prowess, as evidenced by the recent minimum qualification standards set by the Office of Personnel Management.
Posted 11.14.2011
The federal government could save billions of dollars by doing more work in-house instead of outsourcing to private contractors, a new study shows. ...
Steve Ressler | Posted 10.08.2011
In an already struggling economy, government employees are going to have to serve more people with fewer and fewer resources. Can public servants find a silver lining by using budget cuts to streamline the government operations?
Steve Ressler | Posted 09.18.2011
Someone who likes their job 75 percent of the time is probably doing vastly better than average, so here are a five ways we can keep public sector employees -- and, really, anyone in the workforce -- interested, happy and productive.
Rev. Anne Howard | Posted 06.07.2011
Thousands of Americans are hanging in the balance -- from federal employees who won't get paid to people across the country who will lose their jobs as we plunge back into recession.
Steve Ressler | Posted 06.06.2011
The real casualties of a government shutdown are the civil servants who wake up every morning on a mission to make a difference for our country. They want to go into the office -- and many would do so without pay.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
The regular people of Toilerville worked hard, but it was difficult to stay ahead even in the best of times. Which is why the regular people of Toilerville were so grateful for the gristle.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Two weeks after House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) dismissed a question about the possibility of the lower chamber's spending bill kill...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
So it turns out I'm not the only person in Wisconsin without caller ID. Then again, I never get any calls from Buffalo bloggers pretending to be one of my billionaire sugar daddies.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
There once was a union maid/ Who found herself betrayed/ By sharps and clowns in Madison town/ Who decided that they'd degrade her trade.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 05.25.2011
Near the end of the now-classic film Chinatown, set in Los Angeles during the 1930s, working-stiff private detective Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) conf...
Terry Newell | Posted 05.25.2011
If you were seriously ill and could choose to go to a private hospital or a government-run veteran's hospital, which would you pick? If you picked th...
Scott Lilly | Posted 05.25.2011
The "Pledge to America" proposing to "freeze hiring" for all "non-security related" federal employees is short on details, but it is not that hard to do the math, and the results show some major shortcomings.
The Washington Post | T.W. Farnam | Posted 05.25.2011
Capitol Hill employees owed $9.3 million in overdue taxes at the end of last year, a sliver of the $1 billion owed by federal workers nationwide but o...
AP | SYLVIE CORBET and JEAN-MARIE GODARD | Posted 05.25.2011
PARIS — France will raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 in 2018 in an effort to get the country's spiraling public finances under control, th...
ajc.com | Patrick Fox | Posted 05.25.2011
About 180 Gwinnett County employees are being notified they were overpaid 16 years ago and it's time to make good on the advance. As part of its rejuv...
forbes.com | Brian S. Wesbury and Robert Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
If the United States were a large company, Brian Wesbury and Robert Stein write, "the solution would be a no-brainer: It would be time for a big pay c...
Steven Kurlander | Posted 05.24.2012