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HOW TO IMPROVE GOVERNMENT COVERAGE

Barrett & Greene

All journalists covering government have been lied to at various points in their careers, but in our experience — and we’ve had thousands of interviews covering every state and large city and county in the country — we’ve found that most government employees are diligent, hardworking and inclined to be as candid as they’re permitted to be.

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Knowing When, Where and How to Modernize

GovLoop

Government employees are people, too,” she said. ” For more ideas about how to make the case for modernization that agency leaders and legislators find compelling, download it here: Get the guide Photo illustration by Kaitlyn Baker and Julia Blurton-Jones for GovLoop Favorite

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Listen to Employees, Improve Outcomes

GovLoop

Insights to Outcomes Agencies have real constraints that impact employee engagement and satisfaction. Legacy infrastructure and IT, and legislative and regulatory mandates, can pose problems for mission-oriented government employees.

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Delivering What the Public Expects

GovLoop

Alboum believes government employees should see their agency’s mission in action whenever possible. “I It’s an example, Alboum said, of “ServiceNow embrac[ing] the idea of, ‘let’s make government as simple as possible.’” Field Work Technology is not the end goal: It’s a vehicle to serve the public.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In response to that growing criticism plus how much has changed in markets, legislation, and regulation during the 90-plus years of the FHLBanks’ existence, its regulator – the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – announced in 2022 that it would undertake a review of the entire System.

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The "nonprofit industrial complex," city government and service delivery

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This is in the news more recently because of alleged bribes to a councilmember (" Trayon White expelled from the DC Council for corruption but hes free to run for his old seat ," AP) and government employee (" Former DC government official charged with taking bribe ,"NBC4) by a grantee eager to secure their place in the system.