The U.S. Department of Agriculture is renting permanent office space for two of its research agencies in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, despite the union concerns that relocation from the nation’s capital has left the agencies critically understaffed and lacking vital ...

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A federal employees union charged this week that recent comments by acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney confirm the Trump administration’s “grand strategy” to cut the federal workforce by relocating agency offices out of Washington. Mulvaney said last ...

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The Department of Agriculture says fewer than 40 percent of the researchers whose jobs are being transferred from Washington, D.C., to Kansas City will make the move to the Midwest. The Kansas City Star reports that U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny ...

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Some U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers are reluctant to move across the country to the Kansas City area when two research agencies move there. The USDA announced plans earlier this month to move the Economic Research Service and National Institute ...

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USDA loans account for about 132,000 mortgages a year in areas designated by the agency as rural.

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