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Interagency Competition Seeks to Thwart Opioid Trafficking Through the Mail
Four agencies team up to offer $1.55 million in prize money for new tools and technology to solve long-running problem.
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Agencies In the Dark About Performance of Their Grants, Survey Shows
Funding uncertainty, administrative burden on recipients continue as challenges.
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Lawmakers From Both Parties Seek to Revive Agency Labor-Management Councils
The Trump administration’s decision to dissolve groups designed for collaboration between unions and agency leadership drew outcry in 2017.
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How the GS System Fails Federal Workers and Everyone Else
If government could start with a clean page to plan a new pay system, it would never consider the General Schedule program model.
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Where Are the Stories About Government’s Vital Work?
Agencies need to do a better job of explaining what they do and why it matters.
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Analysis: The Emergency Declaration Should Not Be Resolved in Court
The constitutional conflict between Congress and President Trump over his emergency declaration has potential to undermine centuries of checks and balances between the two branches of government.
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Shutdown Hampered Watchdogs’ Latest Report on Afghanistan War
The U.S. spends about $3 billion monthly on Operation Freedom Sentinel.
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Stop Inspiring Your Team to Underperform
A lot of well-intentioned leaders set the bar too low for their staff.
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Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising identity, transcendence, and community, but failing to deliver.
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The President’s Oddly Specific Lies About How He’s Managing Government
Trump has laid claim to issuing orders and taking actions that never occurred.
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The Budget Outlook Is Even Worse Than the Official Projections
The growing debt would be less of a concern if there was a viable plan to stop overspending, but this isn't the case.
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Analysis: Blame Congress for the National Emergency
Long ago, it could have required the president to meet certain requirements prior to unlocking this broad authority.
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FBI Scientist’s Statements Linked Defendants to Crimes, Even When His Lab Results Didn’t
Court records and FBI Lab files show statements by prosecutors or Richard Vorder Bruegge, the most prominent member of the Forensic Audio, Video and Image Analysis Unit, veered from his original conclusions in at least three cases.
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Federal Executive Pay is Inadequate
When school superintendents are paid significantly more than government’s leaders, something is wrong.
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Unions, Trump Administration Prepare to Face Off in Court Again Over Workforce Executive Orders
Oral arguments in the White House’s appeal of a decision blocking the measures are slated for April.
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How Leaders Rise From Small Groups
New research indicates how leaders arise from small groups of people over time.
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Forest Service Advised to Improve Reporting on Sexual Harassment
IG finds progress in workplace protections, but managers with prior histories won promotions.
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How the Government Could Successfully Leverage Its Buying Power
The UK offers some insight for achieving this decades-long quest.
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Shutdown Thwarted Public Input on Agency Rules
Lawmakers, citing public health and environmental impact, want OMB to extend the rulemaking comment period.
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