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There may be advantages to having the jobs in KC that go beyond just COL/expense considerations.  I don't know why they have made this decision but I would think that punishing the employees is not the primary goal of the move.  There has to be some sort of strategic reason for this.  
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The strategic reason is that they want to run off a bunch of employees and slash the budget to wreck the agency:

https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2019/06/26/ers-move-goal-cut-agencys-budget

[QUOTE]The union representing employees from the Economic Research Service cited that roughly two-thirds of more than 200 employees being reassigned from Washington, D.C., to Kansas City, Mo., won't go.

[b]That is exactly what USDA leaders want and what the Trump administration budgeted to happen. USDA's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2020 that ERS would lose half its employees during the year.[/b]

[b]At the end of last September, ERS had 319 full-time employees. The White House budget proposal for FY 2020 set the budget for 160 staff, a cut of 159 jobs for the agency.[/b]

The FY 2020 budget is set to start Oct. 1, or when Congress completes appropriations for the year. Democrats have a rider in the House appropriations bill to block the ERS move, but the relocation likely will happen before Congress passes its final FY 2020 appropriations.

[b]The Trump administration proposed FY 2020 budget for ERS was $60.5 million for 160 staff and a $26.7 million budget cut from FY 2019.[/b][/QUOTE][/quote]

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