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Sequestration Cuts

Friday, March 1, 2013

Sequestration Cuts Could Hit Baltimore County Hard

Graphs break down number of federal employees in each Maryland county.

The numbers here show the federal employees in Maryland by county in 2012, according to the latest figures from Eye on Washington, a DC-based lobbying firm that tracks federal employment. It compiles the data from the Office of Personnel Management, Federal Employment Statistics and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While much has been made written on how the current sequestration battle in Washington could affect the national economy, these numbers are meant to give readers a sense of the sequestration at the local level. In Baltimore County, Towson Patch reporter Nayana Davis recently wrote about the effects sequestration could have on the Baltimore County Public Schools system. The majority of federal jobs in Baltimore County are centered…

william bittner

10:28 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013

This is the exact same story that ran with the title that Pikesville would be hit hard. someone should do his homework, the USPS does receive taxdollars they got $96 million last year under the "POSTAL SERVICE FUND"   more ›

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

O’Malley: Sequester Could Cost 12,000 Jobs

The governor warned a crowd in Elkridge about the potential effects the upcoming sequester could have on Maryland.

  Governor Martin O’Malley said Wednesday that Congress’s inability to compromise on budget cuts has led to a situation where across the board cuts could slow Maryland’s economic growth. Sign up for the Parkville-Overlea Patch newsletter here and follow us on Facebook and Twitter for instant news updates and community conversations. O’Malley said that 12,000 jobs in the state could be lost due to sequestration. To put that number in perspective, the governor said approximately 30,000 jobs were created in the state last year. O'Malley's remarks came at FLIR Systems, a defense systems company in Elkridge, located at 6610 Amberton Dr.. "All of the great work that each of you does here is threatened by the uncertainty of the dysfunction in the…

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Other Tim

8:27 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013

Walmart is a multi billion dollar company. They did not get that way by fudging numbers, lying to their stockholders, and spending way beyond their means. I would bet your so called low level analysts could get it straight in a couple of weeks.   more ›

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