FEDERAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK | A former Peace Corps volunteer in Nicaragua and now desk officer for Morocco and Jordan at headquarters in Washington, D.C., Cicely Wolters has watched ...

Wendy Davis works to help consumers see the light - all kinds of it. As head of the Vision Science Laboratory, she sees her mission not just in scientific applications ...

The Dodd-Frank bill gave Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner broad new power, such as his upcoming decision on regulating foreign-exchange swaps.

Internal oversight of Defense Logistics Agency activity falls short.

Thirteen activists arrested last fall for protesting the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy are scheduled to appear in court Friday to face charges rarely pressed against groups demonstrating at ...

President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House this morning.

Congress and experts look for more effective punishments for companies that defraud Medicare and Medicaid.

President Obama will host G-8 leaders at Camp David in May, marking the first time he has opened the presidential retreat to foreign leaders. ...

The nation's largest drugmakers have paid at least $8 billion in fines, but they remain in business with the government, records show.

Once, long ago, Evie looked after "Barry" Obama. Now, his transgender former nanny is living in fear on Indonesia's streets.

Rep. Timothy Ryan (D, OH) twittered

Sen. Harry Reid (D, NV) twittered

Sen. Harry Reid (D, NV) twittered

Sen. Harry Reid (D, NV) twittered

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Fixing the state's retirement finances is like untangling a Gordian knot. Last month, I testified in Sacramento before a bipartisan commission of the California state legislature, a commission that was ...

A new look at whether public employees are overpaid. A recent study sheds new light on the nagging question of whether public employees are paid too much relative to their ...

Usually, pilot programs address one targeted problem, like providing technical training to disadvantaged workrce or helping poor homeowners repair their homes. In Maine, a partnership among many different groups hopes ...

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Putting trust and responsibility in the hands of front-line workers means having a strong ethical grounding. You hate bureaucracy -- or else you wouldn't be reading Management Insights. You particularly ...

The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since ...

The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense ...

More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans ...

Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog ...

The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less ...