Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Federal Workers Overpaid, and CBO Agrees

Mike Brownfield

Here’s some news that federal bureaucrats in Washington — and indeed around the country — don’t want to hear: According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report released this week, federal workers are paid higher than their private-sector counterparts.

The “alarming news” hit the national media yesterday, but there’s a funny thing about the report. None of it is really “news” — in fact, The Heritage Foundation long ago uncovered the truth about federal pay. The CBO’s report this week was spurred in part by two years of work on federal compensation conducted by Heritage and the American Enterprise Institute.

Read more: http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/01/morning-bell-federal-workers-overpaid-and-cbo-agrees/

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