The United States faces two significant challenges: too few workers in a private economy with millions of open positions and too many workers in a public sector generating an expected federal deficit this year of $804 billion. If only there were an obvious solution that could somehow address both problems. As policy makers were wrestling with these possibly related issues, along came a Thursday letter from President Trump to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. The President addressed the pay raises for civilian federal employees...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 31, 2018 22:41 UTC