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They're getting a $50,000 lump sum settlement.[/quote]

Citation? Besides someone with poor reading comprehension who thinks a modeled value in a cost-benefit analysis equates to an offer?

About that cost-benefit analysis:
https://www.aaea.org/UserFiles/file/Report-MovingUSDAResearchersWillCostTaxpayers-AAEAReport2019june19final.docx.pdf

[QUOTE]The move was actually announced in Fall 2018.[/QUOTE]

KC was announced June 13th, obviously no one could make plans before then. And they still can't really make plans, since no one knows exactly where in the KC area the permanent offices will be located.
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Lump sum is upthread.

Announcement (its public on the USDA's freaking website / employees have known this was coming since before Aug 2018) -

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced further reorganization of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), intended to improve customer service, strengthen offices and programs, and save taxpayer dollars. The Economic Research Service (ERS), currently under USDA’s Research, Education, and Economics mission area, will realign once again with the Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) under the Office of the Secretary. [b]Additionally, most employees of ERS and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) will be relocated outside of the National Capital Region. The movement of the employees outside of Washington, DC is expected to be completed by the end of 2019. [/b]

https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2018/08/09/usda-realign-ers-chief-economist-relocate-ers-nifa-outside-dc[/quote]

Once again, USDA still hasn’t told its employees exactly WHERE they’re supposed to be moving. It’s less than 2.5 months left to go, and it’s still not even narrowed down to which state, though they do have a general metro area.  If the employee’s spouse is working, they likely will need to know which state they would want to aim for.  Teacher, firefighters, lawyers, doctors - these are all examples of professions that have some sort of state-specific requirements and I imagine that Kansas and Missouri differ at least somewhat in the details.  My friends’ experiences as trailing spouses was that it could take thousands of dollars and weeks/months of time to transfer state professional certifications/licenses/etc.  Plus, employees need to figure out which school district they should be looking to enroll their kids in.  Since USDA still hasn’t figured out the details, they should allow their employees the option to telework to give them some time to transition their families....but evidently this isn’t an option.  This is a pretty crappy way to treat your employees and their families.

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