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Friday furloughs mean less services
May 24, 2013
Thanks to sequestration, roughly 115,000 federal workers at the IRS, EPA, HUD and OMB get an unpaid holiday. Does anybody really notice that the offices are closed on the first day of the long Memorial Day weekend?
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New ways to cut wasteful spending at the Pentagon
May 13, 2013
The Air Force turns to rank and file to ferret out waste, following the example of the private sector.
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No sequester reprieve for biomedical research
Apr 30, 2013
Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institute of Health, on how sequester cuts have caused anxiety for young researchers.
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Sequester funding cuts have researchers worried
Apr 29, 2013
As government spending on medical research drops, some would-be scientists are having second thoughts.
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JFK air traffic controller on first furlough day: 'Frustrating'
Apr 24, 2013
Air traffic controllers from JFK to LAX have begun their furloughs, making for long and painful delays, especially flying into and out of the big East Coast airports around New York City.
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Wait, wasn't the sequester going to crater the economy?
Apr 1, 2013
One month to the day after the sequester supposedly kicked in, the housing market and stock market are driving an economic recovery.
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U.S. housing department plans 7-day shutdown due to sequester
Mar 27, 2013
The Department of Housing and Urban Development chooses total shutdown over furloughs.
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Military tuition cuts: A tangible sequester impact
Mar 11, 2013
The U.S. Army is freezing all new applications for its tuition assistance program because of the sequester. As David Gura reports, the elimination of the much relied-upon program is among the first tangible repercussions of the automatic budget cuts.
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Next up on the sequester tarmac? Corporate jets
Mar 6, 2013
The Federal Aviation Administration has identified dozens of airfields that could be closed, many of which are regularly used by business travelers and executives.
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Boehner criticizes stoppage of White House tours
Mar 6, 2013
"I'm disappointed the White House has chosen to comply with sequestration by cutting public tours," the Speaker of the House said.
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