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The 'New Normal' of Morale at Agencies
April 11, 2023

Recently, a prominent good government group released its first batch of rankings stemming from its analysis of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. The Partnership For Public Service found that some

How IRS Plans to Hire Thousands of Employees
April 10, 2023

Last August, Congress enacted the Inflation Reduction Act, which included billions of dollars for IRS modernization. Last week, the tax agency released Internal Revenue Service Inflation Reduction Ac

Americans' Changing Views of the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 07, 2023

The years of the COVID-19 pandemic have taken their toll on American institutions, including the public health infrastructure tasked with dealing with the pandemic. The media and information ecosystem

Job Programs Help Communities During Tight Labor Markets
April 06, 2023

It seems almost too obvious to say, but inadequate employment levels play a huge role in poverty levels of communities. In a time of staggeringly disparate economic indicators in the pandemic-era Unit

Military Readiness, the Pentagon and DEI Programs
April 05, 2023

Governmentwide DEI efforts have faced a fair amount of criticism and such programs at the Defense Department are no different. Critics of DEI often using the term "woke" have most recently tied it

Fixing Veterans' Preference Can Fix Federal Hiring
April 04, 2023

Nearly anyone who has dealt with it agrees that the federal hiring process is broken. Years of court fights, legislative fixes and special interests have produced a hiring system that frustrates hirin

Paying Your Taxes Is Complicated. Here's Why.
April 03, 2023

Americans have to fill out various forms and enlist accountants or software like TurboTax or H&R Block. The time tax as that Americans spend on doing taxes is an administrative burden in and of i

TikTok, Security and Government Devices
March 31, 2023

Since its introduction to the American market five years ago, concerns about video sharing app TikTok have been constant. The spotlight on massively popular mobile application has culminated in TikTok

Improved Flexibility and Cooperation Are Among the 2023 Government Trends
March 30, 2023

The world is changing rapidly, with government having to face new crises with different and more innovative solutions. COVID-19 has changed the work landscape and the ways that Americans relate to wor

There Are Ways to Improve the System of Classifying Documents
March 29, 2023

As with many things in the federal government the systems by which documents are classified could use some tweaks. Modernizing the classification is overdue, from the overclassification problem to the