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Can't pay student loans? Look for proactive options
If you have just finished college and have a job — congratulations. Still, even with a job, many new graduates are shocked when they find out how difficult it is to cover student loans and other expenses. Graduating with $20,000 in federal...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Government, Loans, Human Interest, Politics
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Furlough Friday: Budget cuts mean an unpaid day off for many at IRS, HUD and other agencies
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS on Friday. And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and Urban Development field offices nationwide. It was "furlough Friday." Roughly 5...Tags: Sally Jewell, Washington, DC, Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Tea Party Movement
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IRS puts head of problem office on leave
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service has replaced the head of the office under fire for improperly targeting conservative groups, a day after she invoked the 5th Amendment and refused to answer questions before a congressional committee. Lois...
Tags: FBI, Darrell E Issa, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Tea Party Movement, Chuck Grassley
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ANALYSIS-In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
Reuters(Repeats from earlier May 23 for wider distribution) By Joan Biskupic and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23 (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a congressional committee Wednesday, she declared...Tags: Richard Nixon, Tea Party Movement, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Justice System
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RPT-Los Angeles' new mayor: hipster, Rhodes Scholar, budget fixer?
Reuters(Repeats with no changes to story) By Sharon Bernstein and Tim Reid LOS ANGELES, May 22 (Reuters) - A Rhodes Scholar and urban planning wonk in a city that generally prefers its politicians to be less eclectic, Los Angeles mayor-elect Eric Garcetti will...Tags: Elections, Antonio Villaraigosa, Music, Budgets and Budgeting, Colleges and Universities
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Analysis: In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
ReutersWASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a congressional committee Wednesday, she declared that she had done nothing wrong - but said she did not intend to testify. Her defiance only...Tags: Richard Nixon, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Tea Party Movement, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Eric Garcetti faces tough tests when he takes office as mayor
In the campaign for mayor, Eric Garcetti spoke grandly about a city with plentiful summer jobs for low-income teens, a tunnel under the traffic-clogged Sepulveda Pass and even an end to homelessness. But a day after winning office, the mayor-elect faced...
Tags: Elections, Antonio Villaraigosa, Paul Koretz, Budgets and Budgeting, Career and Workplace
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Council to consider mayor's proposed pension changes
With the city retirement system short hundreds of millions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, officials say they are likely to begin requiring municipal employees to contribute to their pensions. "Pretty much everyone is in agreement that it's fair,"...
Tags: Interior Policy, Public Employees, Baltimore County, Career and Workplace, Mary Pat Clarke
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The cost of BGE reliability
Baltimore Gas & Electric certainly isn't likely to win any popularity contests. It secured a rate increase from the Public Service Commission in February — its second in the last three years — and turned around and filed a request for...
Tags: Consumers, Government, Executive Branch, Global Change, Politics
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Payroll meltdown keeps costing California
SACRAMENTO -- California officials are still cleaning up the mess after halting an expensive and troubled overhaul of the payroll system for public employees earlier this year. Roughly two dozen workers are responsible for sifting through the rubble...Tags: Jerry Brown, Medical Procedures and Tests, Government, Career and Workplace, Politics
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Sri Lanka opposition says government threatened to sack strikers
ReutersCOLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's opposition parties and trade unions accused the government on Tuesday of threatening state employees with the sack if they took part in planned street protests against a sharp rise in electricity prices. Only a few hundred...Tags: Parliament, Electricity Production and Distribution, Sri Lanka, Colombo (Sri Lanka), Government
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Factbox: Four key questions in the unfolding IRS scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional and Justice Department investigators are examining the Internal Revenue Service over its inappropriate scrutiny of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. President Barack Obama, seeking to contain the...Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. House of Representatives, White House, Washington, DC, Jack Lew
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