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Widespread job cuts begin at health agencies
The layoffs are the latest indication of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s drastic effort to ...
Mass Layoffs Begin at Health Department Agencies That Track Disease Outbreaks and Regulate Food
Secretary RFK Jr. said on social media that his heart went out to the researchers, scientists, and other staff losing their ...
Widespread layoffs, purge of leadership underway at U.S. health agencies
The move comes after Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement of a sweeping reduction of the Department of Health and ...
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Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers and close agencies in a major restructuring
Kennedy Jr. criticized the department he oversees as an ... disease outbreaks and works with public health agencies nationwide. 1,200 jobs at the NIH, the world’s leading public health research ...
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Mass layoffs hit workers at HHS; sweeping cuts extend to CDC, NIH, FDA: Recap
Mass layoffs began Tuesday at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the Food and Drug Administration, the first steps in a plan to cut 10,000 jobs at the Department of Health and ...
Thousands of federal health workers are losing their jobs in the US
HHS announced last week that it would slash its workforce by 20,000 people. Now, the nation is starting to see how that purge is rolling out, affecting programs meant to prevent and treat HIV ...