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Snippet of Article: "...the New York subway system and government agencies must determine whether this poses any threat to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its commuters, Schumer said in a statement to Reuters. "Given what we know about how cyberwarfare works, and recent attacks that have hit transportation and infrastructure hubs..."
Source: www.businessinsider.comSnippet of Article: "...if you were planning to move everything, or anything, out of the TSP, you might want to checkout the upcoming changes, which for many, could result in the best of both investing and safety worlds..."
Source: federalnewsnetwork.comSnippet of Article: "...unless lawmakers vote to overturn it. Democrats opted not to try to kill the pay raise in drafting the legislative branch spending bill..."
Source: www.nbcnews.comSnippet of Article: "...At the end of March, the number of both active and retired federal workers with $1 million plus accounts stood at 32,638, up from 23,098 in March 2018. The vast majority of TSP millionaires are rank and file workers who’ve been investing an average of 30 years. Virtually all of them are heavily, or exclusively, invested in the federal 401K plans C and stock, large and small cap, funds..."
Source: federalnewsnetwork.comSnippet of Article: "...The Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), were passed in the 1970s in an effort to prevent “double-dipping” from social security and other government pensions, according to Wilk The GPO does so by cutting benefits when an individual receives a government pension, and their spouse is eligible for social security from non-government employment..."
Source: www.hometownstation.comSnippet of Article: "...Thank you to Senator Schatz for introducing this important legislation, which would provide federal employees with 12 weeks of paid leave for reasons covered by the Family Medical Leave Act, including a new child, a family illness, or issues involving military deployments. The Senate bill, S 1174, is a companion to HR 1534, which was introduced by Rep. Carolyn Maloney in March and currently has 27 bipartisan cosponsors. "Federal employees currently receive no paid time off for the birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child, or to address other family medical emergencies..."
Source: finance.yahoo.comSnippet of Article: "...The largest union of government employees is calling on Congress to question the TSA administrator about reports of bullying and retaliation at Orlando International Airport, which were brought to light by a Spectrum News Watchdog Investigation..."
Source: www.baynews9.comSnippet of Article: "...President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order allowing Congressionally approved 1.9 percent pay raises for federal workers to go into effect, retroactive to Jan. 1...."
Source: thehill.comSnippet of Article: "...But most advisers have this to say about Roth IRAs. “The Roth is the second-best deal in the tax code,” says William Harris, a certified financial planner and retirement management adviser..."
Source: www.usatoday.comSnippet of Article: "...Under the new program, those workers would be enrolled in the Thrift Savings Plan, which operates similarly to a private sector 401(k) retirement plan, but would not be eligible for a federal pension..."
Source: www.govexec.comSnippet of Article: "...after U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Special Counsel Robert Mueller had found no evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign team and Russia..."
Source: www.reuters.comSnippet of Article: "...proposed the Postal Service join the rest of government in not allowing its employees to negotiate over pay. Multiple members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee rejected that suggestion, while David Williams, a recently sworn-in member of the agency’s board of governors, said he could think of “no way at all” such an approach would address the most significant drivers of USPS’s precarious financial situation..."
Source: www.govexec.comSnippet of Article: "...The budget would also eliminate the Special Retirement Supplement, which provides additional funds for those employees that retire before age 62, when Social Security kicks in. This is especially relevant for positions like law enforcement personnel, who have a mandatory retirement age that is earlier than 62. The plan would also reduce the interest rate on the Thrift Savings Plan’s G Fund..."
Source: www.federaltimes.comSnippet of Article: "...USPS economic proposals are nothing short of draconian and regressive. Their proposals include: No increase in pay rates – a freeze for current employees: One lump sum payment in lieu of the usual annual pay raise; Lump sum payments in lieu of COLAs. Decreasing the career workforce..."
Source: www.apwu.orgSnippet of Article: "...who had been a furloughed federal employee, finally claimed her $29.5 million jackpot..."
Source: www.ajc.comSnippet of Article: "...This looming problem is due to the cap on payroll taxes at $132,900, meaning each person only pays the 12.4 percent Social Security tax up to that amount, no matter how much income they earn. The vast majority of workers pay the full 12.4 percent on most of their income – Jeff Bezos, by comparison, pays about .00028 percent of his income. Sen. Sanders’s bill, first introduced in the Senate in 2017, would remove this cap, and require those making over $250,000 per year to pay full Social Security taxes. The bill also includes a new 6.2 percent tax on single people with investment income above $200,000 and couples above $250,000. In addition to keeping Social Security fully solvent, the bill would increase benefits for all Social Security recipients, provide higher cost-of-living..."
Source: www.apwu.orgSnippet of Article: "... 'Good government,' Hamilton explained in Federalist No. 70, requires “energy in the executive,' which is 'essential to the protection of the community from foreign attacks' and 'the steady administration of the laws.' In this case, the web of congressional authorizations and emergency powers does not contradict the constitutional scheme, but instead amplifies it. Not only do presidents still have some reservoir of constitutional authority to declare emergencies, but Congress has seen fit to enhance it with the right to re-allocate spending to support such a declaration. Despite the pleas of administration critics, the Supreme Court will almost certainly agree..."
Source: www.nationalreview.comSnippet of Article: "...She had her car repossessed. She couldn’t afford to buy her grandchildren’s favorite lunches and snacks. After missing January rent payments, Williams now worries about the possibility of eviction and is starting to pack her bags for a potential move to North Carolina, where her mother left a home behind..."
Source: www.yahoo.comSnippet of Article: "...The estimated 800,000 federal employees who have gone without paychecks during the government shutdown should almost all get their back pay by week's end..."
Source: www.usatoday.comSnippet of Article: "...Many of the IRS employees who are choosing not to come to work despite getting called back are taking advantage of a provision in the union contract that allows them to miss work if they suffer a “hardship” during a shutdown, according to the labor groups. That could mean a blown car tire, an empty gas tank..."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "...NARFE applauds President Trump for signing into law the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act so that furloughed and working federal employees promptly receive back pay once the shutdown ends. While the longest shutdown in American history continues with no end in sight, this law provides some sense of certainty to hardworking federal employees struggling to survive during this political nightmare through no fault of their own..."
Source: www.narfe.orgSnippet of Article: "...The USPS has decided to expand the Wounded Warrior Leave policy by providing 104 hours of Wounded Warrior Leave to veterans with a service connected disability rating of..."
Source: NPMHUSnippet of Article: "...The president is correct Some scholars of presidential emergency powers say there is next to nothing, at least procedurally, that Capitol Hill could do to stop Trump from exercising what lawmakers of all stripes agree is his right to declare a national emergency. "Congress chose not to put any substantial — or really any — barriers on the president's ability to declare a national emergency," says Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty and National Security Program..."
Source: National Public RadioSnippet of Article: "...Lawmakers are bracing for Trump to declare a national emergency after negotiations to end the shutdown fizzled..."
Source: www.politico.comSnippet of Article: "...Keller, a single mother who works for the federal Census Bureau, used to live paycheck to paycheck. Now, she is living nothing to nothing. Payday would have come this week for Ms. Keller, 42, and many of the 800,000 other federal workers across the country caught up in the partial government shutdown..."
Source: www.nytimes.comSnippet of Article: "...Find out about surplus sales, collectibles, and other items available through purchase or auction..."
Source: www.usa.govSnippet of Article: "...As budget negotiations to reopen the government have stalled over President Donald Trump's demand for funding to build a border wall, the risk is growing that tax refunds could be delayed if furloughed IRS workers don't return to work..."
Source: www.usatoday.comSnippet of Article: "...Nancy Pelosi traveled nearly 5,000 miles away from Washington, DC. The Dem was holed up at the Fairmont Orchid Resort in Kona, Hawaii...Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), a furious Trump critic, was relaxing last week in the Bahamas, where she took in a traditional post-Christmas parade...President Trump has been left to seethe in the nation’s capital, where he decided to stay"
Source: nypost.comSnippet of Article: "...House Democrats — increasingly convinced they’re winning the shutdown fight with President... — are plotting ways to reopen the government while denying the president even a penny more for his border wall when they take power Jan. 3..."
Source: www.politico.comSnippet of Article: "...U.S. Border Patrol Council pointed out the irony inherent in the border security debate amid the partial government shutdown. Art Del Cueto noted that top Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will continue to receive a paycheck as the federal government entered a partial shutdown over a heated disagreement over funding of President Donald Trump’s border wall..."
Source: www.bizpacreview.comSnippet of Article: "...To the hundreds of thousands of federal employees who will work without pay or be furloughed over the holidays if there is a government shutdown, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) says it is just part of the risk of working in public service..."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "...Federal employees were offered an early holiday gift this year from President Trump when he signed an executive order that relieved workers from their duties on Christmas Eve. The decree issued on Tuesday on the White House’s website declared that every executive department and agencies operating within the government “shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Monday.” However..."
Source: www.foxnews.comSnippet of Article: "...feds will have to wait to find out whether a proposed 1.9 percent raise will be put into effect for 2019. Both the House and Senate unanimously passed a second continuing resolution..."
Source: www.federaltimes.comhttp://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/image.php?id=957 |
Snippet of Article: "... Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Bush postponed his university studies, enlisted in the United States Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator in the U.S. Navy at the time. He served until September 1945 (the last President to have participated in the war), and then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas, where he entered the oil business and became a millionaire by the age of 40 in 1964. Soon after founding his own oil company, Bush became involved in politics. He was defeated in his first election, for the U.S. Senate in 1964, but won election to the House of Representatives from Texas's 7th district in 1966. He was re-elected in 1968 but was defeated for election to the Senate again in 1970. In 1971, President Richard Nixon appointed Bush as Ambassador to the United Nations, and in 1973, Bush became the Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The following year, President Gerald Ford appointed Bush as Chief of the Liaison Office in China and later reassigned Bush to the position of Director of Central Intelligence. Bush ran for president in 1980, but was defeated in the Republican primary by Ronald Reagan. Reagan chose Bush as his running mate, and Bush became vice president after the Reagan–Bush ticket won the 1980 election. During his eight-year tenure as vice president, Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation and prosecuting the war on drugs. In 1988, Bush ran a successful campaign to succeed Reagan as president..."
Source: www.whitehouse.govSnippet of Article: "...The Interior Department inspector general released new details about the employee whose browsing habits allowed Russian malware onto government networks..."
Source: www.nextgov.comThe following explains the 1.1% vs 1% FERS Basic Annuity Formula Computation (opm.gov):
Snippet of Article: "...the anonymous person used the work computer to visit more than 9000 pornographic websites. Many of them were Russian-based and contained malware which, after getting into the system, managed to spread thru the entire USGS network. In addition to the infected network, an unnamed employee infected the Android phone. After downloading the pornographic content to the device, the suspect connected it to the computer which was government-issued and let the malware to the network..."
Source: www.2-spyware.comSnippet of Article: "...Trump tax cuts are unpopular because many people feel they benefit businesses and high earners more than middle-class workers. This year’s tax-receipt numbers back that up. Individual income-tax receipts rose from $1.587 trillion in fiscal 2017 to $1.684 trillion in 2018. That’s a 6.1% increase. Much of that is due to a growing economy and population growth. Cut in corporate tax rate Business-tax receipts, by contrast, plunged from $297 billion in 2017 to $206 billion in 2018, a 31% decline driven by the cut in the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. The portion of federal revenue that comes from business taxes has been dropping for years, and it fell from 7.5% in 2017 to 5% in 2018. Individual income-tax payments account for 41% of federal revenue...."
Source: yahoo.comThe Democratic Plan to Stop Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in 2024 Snippet of Article: "Democrats and the Biden campaign, after months...