What's the long-term cost of federal layoffs?

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  Npr.

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  This is the indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Darian Woods.

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  The Office of Personnel Management

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  and Elon Musk have been confusing federal workers with an email over the weekend.

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  It asks them what they'd done over the last week after Musk tweeted

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  that failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.

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  The Office of Personnel Management reportedly said on Monday that it was optional after all.

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  And behind these big headlines of resignation offers and layoffs,

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  there are countless unique stories like from Elizabeth Anaskevich.

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  Elizabeth was working for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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  until she got a memo at 8:30 at night in early February.

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  It was just, it was, it was shocking, even though it was somewhat expected.

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  Today on the show,

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  the personal story of how an energetic lawyer got knocked off from her dream career

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  and what she thinks

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  that might mean for whether the government can attract talented people in the future.

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  Are we overlooking the challenges facing men without college degrees?

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  Richard Reeves thinks so.

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  There are a lot of guys out there who are actually poorer than their dads.

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