Federal worker pay freeze would weaken a too-weak recovery


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Deficit : In the context of the Deficit, Obama will get chump change from freezing federal pay, and will only enlarge the degree to which federal pay lags that of the private sector (a gap of 22%, according to the federal pay agent’s report.

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See Table 4.) This is another example of the administration’s tendency to bargain with itself rather than Republicans, and in the process reinforces conservative myths, in this case the myth that federal workers are overpaid.

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Such a policy also ignores the fact ...

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