Feb 24, 2025

Tense Times In Baltimore

     From the Baltimore Banner:

...  “Everything was smooth and very positive, and it seemed like this was a great place to work. But now, no one knows anything,” said a Baltimore-area Social Security employee who has been with the agency less than a year. “I still don’t know if I’m going to have a job.” 

 That employee, as well as other current Social Security workers, asked for anonymity out of fear of being targeted by the administration. ...

The Trump administration said it is terminating most probationary workers across federal agencies. About 4% of Social Security’s 58,627 employees nationwide had less than one year on the job as of spring 2024, according to the most recent federal data available. ...

    I can't copy them here but the photos that accompany this article are evocative and depressing, more so than the writing and the writing is good.

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