Shutdown Leaves Government Contractors Without Work And Likely No Back Pay
While federal employees will likely get retroactively paid, many contractors will not.
Federal Contractors May Lose Pay During Shutdown
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Another Perspective on the 2018 Wildfires
The rising cost of climate-driven disasters including hurricanes and fires is prompting Fema to shift more responsibility to states
What We Learned from Disasters in 2018
What we learned from the disasters that hammered the US in 2018. Why wildfires, hurricanes, and floods cost us hundreds of lives and billions of dollars this year.
FEMA is Underperforming re Puerto Rico Recovery
From Politico: FEMA’s staffing lags well behind its post-Puerto Rico goals.The disaster agency promised to hire more people and improve training after 2017. It failed to meet its targets for both.
But 15 months after Hurricane Maria crashed into Puerto Rico, killing 2,975 people, and almost six months after FEMA released its after-action assessment, the agency is lagging significantly behind its targets in training and recruiting, according to a POLITICO review.
Federal Funding – not an issue here
The Diva just got an email from DHS saying: Due to the Lapse in Federal Funding, This Website Will Not Be Actively Managed.
She chuckled and wants to assure readers of this blog, since we get no federal funding (and no other funding, other than donations), we will carry on without interruption.
P.S. If you are a person who is working but cannot get news or new product info out via federally-funded channels, let me know and I will share it with this audience.
Intense Debate About Flood Mitigation in Ellicott City, MD
After two devastating floods in recent years, this historic city is conflicted over how to mitigate against future floods. See: In Ellicott City, painful debate on preventing deadly floods in historic district.
How Shutdown Affects DHS
More on FEMA Contracting Problems
Editorial in the Miami Herald, Dec. 22: Why is FEMA wasting our money?
The Government Accountability Office this month released a report titled “2017 Disaster Contracting: Action Needed to Better Ensure More Effective Use and Management of Advance Contracts.” Translation: FEMA isn’t managing contracts with relief providers very well.
Government Contractors Perplexed re Shutdown
Effects of the Federal Shutdown
From the WashPost: What Will Happen When the Government Shuts Down.
Commentary on the shutdown:
- Editorial opinion from the WashPost on December 22: Trump’s shutdown stunt is an act of needless stupidity.
- From HuffPost: Reminder: Government Shutdowns Are Costly And Stupid
A partial shutdown over the border wall wouldn’t save money. It would waste it. - What’s the economic impact of a government shutdown?
- Federal Contractors Need to Prepare for a Long Government Shutdown
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