Each week, Drew Friedman and contributors to Federal News Network’s workforce coverage provide listeners with actionable information on the management of their careers and financial lives. Your Federal Life covers topics ranging from federal pay and benefits to retirement and retirement planning, hiring, career planning, and federal personnel policy.
The Government Accountability Office recently made big headlines with its report on the cost of the deferred resignation program. But there's more to the story, like the other factors to consider when calculating DRP costs versus savings, and the limitations of what we actually know about the program. GAO Director of Strategic Issues Dawn Locke joins us for more.Plus, a new civil service reform proposal argues that government capacity depends on a much larger ecosystem of people who carry out public purposes. Federal News Network’s Terry Gerton sits down with the author of that proposal, Don Kettl, professor emeritus at the University of Maryland and former dean of its School of Public Policy.
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30 Sept 2026
Your Federal Life -- Sept. 30, 2026
For decades, government reform efforts have focused on accountability, oversight and reducing risk. A new blueprint argues that approach may have left agencies better at avoiding failure than achieving success. In this two-part interview, we get more from Loren DeJonge Schulman, director of government capacity at the Federation of American Scientists, and Rob Shriver, managing director of the civil service strong and good government initiatives at Democracy Forward.
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2 Sept 2026
Your Federal Life -- Sept. 2, 2026
When federal employee accountability cases drag on, attention usually turns to rules and protections. Maureen Klovers and April Harding discuss a new report from We the Doers, looking at what happens inside the process itself — and how it could be fixed.Plus, a difficult but important conversation about navigating survivor benefits. Certified financial planner Thiago Glieger covers one of the most important acts of financial preparation: making sure a surviving spouse inherits a roadmap, not a maze of decisions, paperwork and uncertainty.
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