A timely research paper looking at SSA staff cuts in the 1980s found that it led to tens of thousands of Americans not getting their earned benefits.
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‘Significant Workforce Reductions’ Under Way at Social Security Administration
An agency-wide email announces the organizational restructuring and encourages employees to retire or resign.
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Social Security Administration Could Cut Half Its Workforce
Sources tell the Prospect that a meeting called for a 50 percent reduction in an agency that millions rely on for benefit implementation.
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk Own the Bird Flu Epidemic
Bird flu is rampaging among chickens and cattle, while Trump and Musk gut the agencies responsible for stopping it.
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VA Research Funding Slashed
Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.
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A ‘Middle Finger’ to Vets
Trump’s new VA secretary is a bigger threat to veterans’ care than Elon Musk.
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The DOGE Czar’s Plan to Loot Medicare
Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives.
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The Exemplary Radical Skeptic
Christopher Jencks, one of the Prospect’s founding group, has died.
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Trump Attacks Child Care for the Most Vulnerable
It turns out that you can’t just turn the government off and then back on again.
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Aging Members of Congress Refuse to Disclose Details of Their Top Secret Hospital
The Office of the Attending Physician gives politicians nearly unlimited medical care for about $54 a month.