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The White House budget office is instructing federal agencies to prepare reduction-in-force plans for mass firings during a possible government shutdown, specifically targeting employees who work for programs that are not legally required to continue.

This month, Long Island achieved an important victory: ensuring that critical projects including addressing the terrible Oakdale Merge and the interchange of the Southern State and Meadowbrook Parkways were included in the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council's Transportation Improvement

The investment is "huge news" for Long Island, and it will help advance the region's plans for a research corridor that connects academic institutions and helps create new startup companies, said Kevin Law, who chairs the Stony Brook University Council.

Employers also appear to have less need for college-educated workers, driven by technological change, automation and, most recently, President Trump’s cuts to federal workers and funding, which have disproportionately affected the college educated.

Since 2010, newly created pension tiers (Tier 5 and Tier 6) have been enacted that reduce the retirement benefits for newly hired public employees, including public school teachers and School-Related Professionals.

Kevin Sexton, national vice president for the locomotive engineers’ union, in an interview Thursday said his organization’s demands have been “exceedingly reasonable” and are “just trying to keep pace with employees elsewhere in the rail sector." The union has pointed out that workers at other ra