Katie Sandlin thought she landed her dream job at the NIH as an educator. She spent her life savings to move from Alabama to ...

Before she had even unpacked her Washington, D.C., apartment after making the move from Alabama, Katie Sandlin became one of thousands of federal probationary workers to be fired.

Washington--- Last month, Katie Sandlin uprooted her life in Carbon Hill, Alabama, a town of 2,000, to work at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, outside Washington, D.C. "I wiped out ...