Sequester

Despite federal budget cuts from sequestration, the National Park Service says attendance is up in 2013.

The Pentagon starts furloughing 650,000 civilian employees next week.

Cuts to government-funded child development programs leave parents scrambling to find child care.

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?

As a result of sequester, the IRS, HUD, the EPA and Office of Management and Budget become part of the biggest wave of government office closures since 1995.

It's been nearly a year since Richard Crowe was laid off from his job as a steelworker. And because of the sequester, his unemployment check was cut 10 percent. But a new job might be in his future.

Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institute of Health, on how sequester cuts have caused anxiety for young researchers.

The Treasury Department is expected to start paying down U.S. government debt this quarter for the first time in six years.

As government spending on medical research drops, some would-be scientists are having second thoughts.

Sequester-related furloughs went into effect this week, impacting mostly air traffic controllers employed by the federal government. How can other public servants prepare their personal finances to take on mandatory unpaid leave?