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As retirement and sequestration in the public workforce become common, we hear more concerns expressed about who our future public managers will be and where they will come from. In…
Due to the fiscal woes plaguing many public entities across the United States, not all human resources managers have the luxury of picking up the phone and calling their organization’s…
Several months ago, I attended a local government conference. One of the speakers was a county administrator who described the challenges of his job. A member of the audience abruptly…
The United States has a rich history of nurturing nonprofits and thus has a nonprofit sector that is among the most dynamic and wide-ranging in the world, both in terms…
After listening to recent media coverage reporting that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) delayed the application process for a range of organizations such as Tea Party groups and others for…
The two previous columns have discussed two of the criteria by which the Government Finance Officers Association critiques budgets for the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award – that of a policy document…
Understanding State Centrism With dependence on U.S.-based foreign aid to maintain security and justice public administration, a heritage of elitist state control in a country can both perpetuate this dependence…
As the third sector, after the government and the private sector, the nonprofit sector is able to focus on specific concerns without the constraints of either bureaucracy or the perverse…
Last month’s column described the roots of modern budget management systems in the progressive and reform movements that took hold in the beginning of the 20th century. Financial management was…
Introduction At the intersection of judicial policy and civil rights the U.S. Supreme Court delivered two divergent, landmark rulings last month with national implications. In United States v. Windsor (570…
Promising Practices on the Homeless Front
Despite the bleakness of the situation with the homeless in the United States, where e-snap computer snafus have disrupted U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding and sequestration…
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