The Federal Salary Council also suggests in its examination of the federal pay scale that the GS base pay increase in 2025 would have to be close to 4% in orderto comply with the Federal Employee Compensation Act.But that rule is almost never followed because presidents have...
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With this in mind, the Fed stopped pointing to progress being made on inflation. For a second consecutive get-together, it simply said that "Inflation remains somewhat elevated." per the statement which closed the meeting. The inflation forecast for 2025 in the SEP was raised, as PCE inflatio...
On Monday the Federal Government released the2024 Closing the Gap report and 2025 implementation plan, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese telling the Parliament that the road ahead wasn’t easy, but that the nation couldn’t “turn our back” to entrenched disadvantage and violence affecting Indig...
Federal employees are in store for a 5.2% pay raise in 2024, according to President Joe Biden’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year. That would be the largest increase in nearly four decades for the U.S. government’s 2.1 million civil service employees. ...
Trump Administration issued a memorandum directing all federal agencies to temporarily pause the obligation or disbursement of federal financial assistance, effective Jan. 28, 2025, at 5 p.m.
In recent weeks, several Fed officials have said they worry that the still-brisk pace of job growth will lead workers to demand higher pay to make up for two years of inflationary prices. Sharp wage gains can perpetuate inflation if companies respond by raising prices for their cu...
Rising immigration, for example, has made it easier for businesses to hire without having to rapidly raise pay. “It looks to me like they’re embracing that supply-side story,” Gapen said. That means “you can cut while growth is solid, and you can cut while the labor m...
Gutierrez, who represents federal firefighters and other land management employees for the National Federation of Federal Employees. Federalfirefighters can make just $15 an hour starting out, according to Gutierrez, who called attention toa bill currently in Congressthat would raise firefighters’ pay....
Updated January 27, 2025 Reviewed by Erika Rasure Fact checked by Yarilet Perez Part of the Series How The Fed’s Interest Rates Affect Consumers Investopedia / Xiaojie Liu Definition The federal funds rate is the interest rate at which depository institutions (mainly banks) lend reserve balances...