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USDA chief says agency is trying to fill key jobs after paying 15,000 to leave Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the department will consider bringing back some employees who took the government's deferred resignation offer.

We're recruiting people to come back after paying them to leave? www.npr.org/2025/05/07/n...

Scientists Hail This Medical Breakthrough. A Political Storm Could Cripple It. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

Saying ‘Thank You’ to ChatGPT Is Costly. But Maybe It’s Worth the Price. Adding words to our chatbot can apparently cost tens of millions of dollars. But some fear the cost of not saying please or thank you could be higher.

Saying ‘Thank You’ to ChatGPT Is Costly. But Maybe It’s Worth the Price. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/t...

Saying ‘Thank You’ to ChatGPT Is Costly. But Maybe It’s Worth the Price. Adding words to our chatbot can apparently cost tens of millions of dollars. But some fear the cost of not saying please or thank you could be higher.

Saying ‘Thank You’ to ChatGPT Is Costly. But Maybe It’s Worth the Price. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/t...

Opinion | Time for a Civic Uprising It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

Time for a Civic Uprising www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

In its pursuit of a policy, Donald Trump’s government is content to destroy a man What’s at stake in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

In its pursuit of a policy, Donald Trump’s government is content to destroy a man
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
From The Economist

Will the Average Retirement Age Keep Rising?

I recommend: crr.bc.edu/will-the-ave...

NSF scraps most outside advisory panels Science agency will no longer get the community’s advice on programs ranging from biology to international activities

NSF scraps most outside advisory panels | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Freak sell-off of ‘safe haven’ US bonds raises fear that confidence in America is fading The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping U.S. gove...

apnews.com/article/trea... sell-off of ‘safe haven’ US bonds raises fear that confidence in America is fading

New research from the Congressional Research Service on the timely topic of nontraditional workers and retirement security: www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

Opinion | Trump Is Risking Your Retirement Portfolio Trump’s tariff threats are hammering the stock market and could spark trouble for our already vulnerable retirement portfolios.

Your Retirement Portfolio Is Like Kindling. Trump Just Lit a Match. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...

Millions to Lose Health Coverage if ACA Tax Credits End

I recommend: crr.bc.edu/millions-to-...

Video: Can This Georgia Factory Survive DOGE? Fitzgerald, Ga., wanted to become the hunger-solution capital of the world — until the Trump administration took aim at U.S.A.I.D.

Starving kids at risk? www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

CFPB’s Main Job: Protecting Your Hard-earned Money

I recommend: crr.bc.edu/cfpbs-main-j...

Social Security Administration to Cut Roughly 7,000 Workers The agency is also restructuring and closing six of 10 regional offices that coordinate and provide support to employees who serve beneficiaries.

Social Security Administration to Cut Roughly 7,000 Workers www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

Vaccination rates are declining. They might get worse as states relax rules. • Stateline More states are loosening vaccine mandates, scaling back vaccine promotion efforts and taking other steps likely to lower vaccination rates — even as a major measles outbreak spreads in Texas.

I can't see this getting better anytime soon stateline.org/2025/02/28/v...

Opinion | Pensions Aren’t the Only Way to a Secure Retirement Americans need to pay more attention to making sure the money they’ve saved will last through retirement.

Pensions Aren’t the Only Way to a Secure Retirement www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/o...

Fiscal 50: Federal Share of State Revenue State and federal budgets are inseparably linked. The Federal Share of State Revenue indicator measures how much funding states receive from the U.S. government to help pay for key public services suc...

State and federal budgets are inseparably linked per @pewtrusts.org www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...

150-year-olds are not receiving Social Security payments  - Marketplace No one has ever lived that long, but a misleading spreadsheet from Elon Musk purports to show they’re still in the safety net agency’s files.

There are no 150 year old's receiving Social Security www.marketplace.org/2025/02/20/1...

Muni market spotlight: Muni bonds and tax reform Will states and localities have to choose between the lesser of two evils?

Muni market spotlight: Muni bonds and tax reform
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Breaking the Mold: The Transformative Effect of MacKenzie Scott's Big Gifts | The Center for Effective Philanthropy The third and final report in CEP’s study on the impact of MacKenzie Scott’s gifts on nonprofit recipients.

who knew that billionaires could do good? cep.org/report-backp...

Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.

US Army refuses to march in parade because it honors Black history www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

"YMCA" is playing on a continuous loop at the Kennedy Center

Delete the CFPB? Be Careful What You Wish For Written by David Silberman

Delete the CFPB? Be careful what you wish for openbanker.beehiiv.com/p/becarefulw...

How a 50-year-old law changed retirement and why it needs a facelift Federal legislation to protect workers’ retirement savings was signed into law in 1974: the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA. It's having a midlife crisis.

How a 50 year old law changed retirement and why it needs a facelift www.aol.com/finance/50-o...

Trailer: Scam Inc Scam Inc from The Economist · Episode

Excellent podcast series from @economist.com - open.spotify.com/episode/1p4c...

(great graphic) Where federal employees work, from @pewresearch.org www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The 401(k) Has Reached a Tipping Point in Its Takeover of American Retirement Access to the plans has been widening, especially among small businesses, and more companies are automatically enrolling workers.

Interesting read from the WSJ on 401(k)s - full disclosure: I am quoted - on a recent increase in retirement plan access for workers, at least according to the National Compensation Survey: www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

The Implications of Shrinking the Federal Workforce by DOGE’s Recommended 75 Percent Smaller areas and areas with military bases are likely to see unemployment rise if the federal workforce is cut by 75 percent.

We'd all feel the pain www.urban.org/urban-wire/i...

Opinion | DeepSeek Serves as a Warning About Big Tech The arrival of DeepSeek shows us the competitive weaknesses of America’s tech giants.

Stop Worshipping the American Tech Giants www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...