The federal government is notifying millions of employees as it works to assess the impact of a massive data breach involving the agency that handles security clearances and employee records. A foreign entity or government is believed to be behind the cyber attack. U.S. officials are investigating...
Security clearances are required for those federal employees, direct and indirect (contract), and applicants who must have access to classified national security information in order to do their job.3 The clearance process is to determine whether an employee or applicant meets certain standards, which...
2 A 1.7 percentage points higher annual growth rate translates to 190 additional state government employees per minister during a five years legislature for the population-weighted average municipality in our sample. As each cabinet comprises ten to twenty ministers, the aggregate effect is even ...