{"id":1984,"date":"2013-08-26T08:51:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T14:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2013-08-26T08:51:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T14:51:18","slug":"defense-department-likely-to-fire-thousands-if-sequestration-continues-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/defense-department-likely-to-fire-thousands-if-sequestration-continues-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Department Likely To Fire Thousands If Sequestration Continues In 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress
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The Defense Department is facing\u00a0the possibility of firing at least 6,272 employees<\/a>\u00a0if the automatic, across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration aren\u2019t reversed, according to a planning document obtained by Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n

Sequestration will reduce the department\u2019s budget for fiscal year 2014 by $52 billion, which is \u201clikely to produce further reductions,\u201d according to the document. While this year the department relied on furloughs to deal with cuts, it seems next year it will rely on \u201creductions in force,\u201d or firings, which affect about 1 percent of the civilian force.<\/p>\n

The document is \u201cDraft\/Pre-Decisional.\u201d A spokeswoman didn\u2019t provide any comment to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

To deal with this year\u2019s cuts, the DoD furloughed 85 percent of its civilian workers for about six days. Those\u00a0set in for more than 650,000 workers<\/a>\u00a0in July, which amounted to a 20 percent reduction in pay through the end of September.<\/p>\n

Pentagon workers aren\u2019t the only ones whose jobs are at risk thanks to sequestration. Head Start programs have announced that\u00a018,000 employees will experience lay offs or reduced pay next year<\/a>. At the same time, more than 57,000 low-income preschoolers will lose their slots in the program. Sequestration has claimed other victims:\u00a0low-income people<\/a>\u00a0who need housing assistance,\u00a0domestic violence victims<\/a>seeking support,\u00a0the home-bound elderly<\/a>\u00a0who need Meals on Wheels,\u00a0the long-term unemployed<\/a>\u00a0seeking benefits, and others.<\/p>\n

Canceling sequestration now would bring back DoD positions, Head Start positions, and others: It could\u00a0add as many as 1.6 million jobs<\/a>\u00a0to the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress click here for original article The Defense Department is facing\u00a0the possibility of firing at least 6,272 employees\u00a0if the automatic, across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration aren\u2019t reversed, according to a planning document obtained by Bloomberg News. Sequestration will reduce the department\u2019s budget for fiscal year 2014 by $52 billion, which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/800px-The_Pentagon_US_Department_of_Defense_building-e1375452807668-300x200.jpg?fit=183%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}