According to HHS, the department will be downsized from 82,000 workers to 62,000 and reduce its divisions from 28 to 15, with ...

nor for the distortions caused by the rise of alphabet agencies—agencies whose few hundred reluctant self-assessments over the past 25 years are now somehow considered representative.

These “alphabet” agencies exercise vast power over the American economy and society. The Securities and Exchange Commission, for example, controls the stock and bond markets and dictates what ...

Jane Manners, a legal historian at Temple University Beasley School of Law, told us how the "alphabet agencies" came to be — agencies like the FCC, or Federal Communications Commission that ...

Around 3 million men were given work by this agency. 1933 Emergency Banking Act All banks were closed for four days. The government supported around 5,000 banks and promised people they would not ...