OLHSA offices will be open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and closed on Fridays.
The Oakland Livingston Human Services Agency (OLHSA) office in Livingston County will be closed on Fridays beginning next week, one of the first victims of the federally mandated sequestration that went into effect last week. OLHSA is a Community Action Agency agency that provides basic needs and services to low-income residents. Because of sequestration, it will lose five percent of its federal funding, equating to over $800,000 for the remainder of the fiscal year. In addition to the new shortened work week, OLHSA will also be taking the following measures: “The sequestration affects OLHSA’s ability to provide assistance to those who need it most,” OLHSA CEO Ronald B. Borngesser said in a press release. “Just as everyone in our nation …
There are more than 90,000 federal employees in Michigan. Click on Livingston County in the interactive chart below to find out how many there are here and hover over the bars to see which departments they work for.
Unless Congress reaches a last-minute agreement on the sequester by Friday, the huge budget cuts slated to kick in have the potential to affect nearly 44 federal employees working in Livingston County. Barring any kind of deal, the Obama administration will have to impose $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts to military and domestic programs on Friday, according to The New York Times. Those cuts would be the start of $1 trillion in cuts over the next decade. The numbers in the graph above show the number of federal employees in Michigan by county in 2012, according to the latest figures from Eye on Washington, a DC-based lobbying firm that tracks federal employment. It compiles the data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management…
