Federal Statistical Agencies - status of RIFs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At BLS, we had a large number take the fork because we had a lot of folks who worked remote and a lot who could take early retirement. We lost most of our contractors. Many of the teams had open positions before the hiring freeze (we had three empty positions), which won’t be filled but rather eliminated. HR is still working on the next phase, which I’m sure will have many victims. Project 2025 wants to merge all the statistical agencies and shrink them.

I’ve heard they plan to merge Census, BLS, and BEA within the year. Curious how that will work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These places sound redundant

Yeah, they all work with numbers so we should merge them.

[Anonymous]

I wonder how that will affect data sharing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At BLS, we had a large number take the fork because we had a lot of folks who worked remote and a lot who could take early retirement. We lost most of our contractors. Many of the teams had open positions before the hiring freeze (we had three empty positions), which won’t be filled but rather eliminated. HR is still working on the next phase, which I’m sure will have many victims. Project 2025 wants to merge all the statistical agencies and shrink them.

I’ve heard they plan to merge Census, BLS, and BEA within the year. Curious how that will work.

Where have you heard this? Could you please provide a link?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They disbanded that federal statistics advisory board (unfortunately I forget the name) and that was free so you can tell how much they value accurate stats.

They will reconstitute it with administration-friendly people.

The people at statistical agencies are not pro or anti administration. They’re numbers people. Totally apolitical, no matter what people post here.

PP means they’ll reconstitute it with people willing to lie.

No, I just meant that the advisory board would be reconstituted. Just like all the other government advisory boards.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They disbanded that federal statistics advisory board (unfortunately I forget the name) and that was free so you can tell how much they value accurate stats.

They will reconstitute it with administration-friendly people.

The people at statistical agencies are not pro or anti administration. They’re numbers people. Totally apolitical, no matter what people post here.

PP means they’ll reconstitute it with people willing to lie.

No, I just meant that the advisory board would be reconstituted. Just like all the other government advisory boards.

Reconstituted with people willing to lie on behalf of the administration, then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At BLS, we had a large number take the fork because we had a lot of folks who worked remote and a lot who could take early retirement. We lost most of our contractors. Many of the teams had open positions before the hiring freeze (we had three empty positions), which won’t be filled but rather eliminated. HR is still working on the next phase, which I’m sure will have many victims. Project 2025 wants to merge all the statistical agencies and shrink them.

I’ve heard they plan to merge Census, BLS, and BEA within the year. Curious how that will work.

Where have you heard this? Could you please provide a link?

It’s hearsay at this point. However I did hear it from a reliable source.

[Anonymous]

Don't forget CDC. Disease statistics. But who needs that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how that will affect data sharing.

Less paperwork. They do a lot of data sharing now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At BLS, we had a large number take the fork because we had a lot of folks who worked remote and a lot who could take early retirement. We lost most of our contractors. Many of the teams had open positions before the hiring freeze (we had three empty positions), which won’t be filled but rather eliminated. HR is still working on the next phase, which I’m sure will have many victims. Project 2025 wants to merge all the statistical agencies and shrink them.

I’ve heard they plan to merge Census, BLS, and BEA within the year. Curious how that will work.

Thank you for sharing this information, PP. By ‘within the year’ do you mean within the current fiscal year, or sometime within the next calendar year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At BLS, we had a large number take the fork because we had a lot of folks who worked remote and a lot who could take early retirement. We lost most of our contractors. Many of the teams had open positions before the hiring freeze (we had three empty positions), which won’t be filled but rather eliminated. HR is still working on the next phase, which I’m sure will have many victims. Project 2025 wants to merge all the statistical agencies and shrink them.

I’ve heard they plan to merge Census, BLS, and BEA within the year. Curious how that will work.

Thank you for sharing this information, PP. By ‘within the year’ do you mean within the current fiscal year, or sometime within the next calendar year?

DP. I work for one of the statistical agencies and haven’t heard about the merge. I’m on an infrastructure team so would be one of the first to hear. Definitely not the FY.