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Maybe privatizing parts of the U. S. Postal Service isn't such a bad idea. Nations have a wide range of models for operating their postal services ranging to fully outsourced to industry. On the other hand, no one matches the scale of the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Service office of inspector general's new white paper details how postal services work in more than two dozen nations. Here with the highlights, research manager John Althen.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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Many groups have launched lawsuits against the Trump administration in recent weeks. Among them, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and others has sued over DOGE access to the Treasury Department payment apparatus. For why it brought suit, EPIC's senior counsel John Davisson.

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After years of pushing for reforms, federal wildland firefighters have just secured a permanent pay increase. Part of the continuing resolution Congress passed this week included legislation to create a new pay system for front line workers. But federal union leaders are still looking at a number of other challenges facing wild land firefighters here with the latest Federal News Network's Drew Friedman.

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It's the Friday of Sunshine Week, and a top house lawmaker is putting the spotlight on Freedom of Information Act staffing at agencies. Representative Gerry Connolly of Northern Virginia says the Trump administration threatens FOIA, but challenges with FOIA backlogs and staffing actually stretch back years. For the latest, Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday.

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Cities across the country have become dotted with unsightly homeless encampments. They're in parks, along beaches, under bridges. President Trump has ordered the camps in Washington D.C. swept away. What exactly is a good way for cities and the federal government to deal with the homeless...and the encampments. For one view, we turn to the founder and CEO of Dignity Moves, Elizabeth Funk.

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Few systems make it to the battlefield without first having been prototypes. Yet too many prototypes don't make it to production. Procurement analysts at George Mason University's Baroni Center have completed a detailed look at the power of prototyping and how to get more out of it. For highlights, we turn to senior fellow Stephanie Halcrow.

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Like it or not, fraud is part of life for government as much as for any other sector. For the government, fraud claims hundred of billions of dollars a year. TransUnion has completed a comprehensive study of the sources of fraud. The company's director of research and consulting, Greg Schlichter.

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The deal for civil service used to be, lower potential lifetime earnings in exchange for job security and retirement benefits. Now a new job insecurity has emerged. Feds need to change their thinking and prepare for loss of income and annuity. Advice now from certified financial planner Art Stein of Arthur Stein Financial.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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