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Laid-Off Federal Workers Hoped to Land in State and Local Jobs. The Reality Is Messy.
State and local governments rolled out the red carpet to federal workers who were laid off en masse this year. But months ...
100 days of DOGE: lots of chaos, not so much efficiency
At the Social Security Administration, lawyers, statisticians and other high-ranking agency officials are being sent from the Baltimore headquarters to regional offices to replace veteran claims ...
USAID cuts felt far outside Washington, D.C.: "Layoff trauma hit across the country"
Close to 20,000 employees — many living in states such as North Carolina, Vermont, California and Georgia — lost their jobs ...
USAID went into the woodchipper, and we’re all paying a price
After the Trump administration’s assaults on USAID, and pushback from its allies, where are we today? Well, a lot of ...
As a former USAID director, I saw firsthand their good work. Here are some examples.
A Nassau County man, who spent nearly 30 years with USAID, laments the abrupt shutdown of the agency and shares some of its ...