AFSA Statement on State Department Reductions in Force

On Tuesday, the State Department laid off over 200 Foreign Service members under a reduction in force, including highly skilled officers with rare language skills, specialists with decades of institutional knowledge, and crisis responders, even as it recruits new staff amid ongoing U.S. tensions with Iran.

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The May-June FSJ

In this issue: diplomatic perspectives on and artificial intelligence, Uncle Sam meets Vladimir Putin, reinventing yourself after government service, the biannual Education Supplement, shaping the new international economic system, and more!

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