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Let’s Consider the Future Role of Public Agency Caseworkers in Connecting Americans to Health Benefits
It is time to discuss the roles state and local eligibility caseworkers play in conveying health benefits to Americans. Over the past two decades, public agency caseworkers' roles have narrowed…
A New Administrative Paradigm to Meet the Challenges of Post Modern America?
Typically, when we consider societal movement from one epoch to another, we view the transition in positive terms, believing each new era represents progress in the human condition. However, movement…
State Tax Policy: All About That Base
Politicians and pundits across the political spectrum have expressed support for broadening the tax base to promote fairness and efficiency while keeping tax rates low. Nevertheless, broadening the tax base…
In Medicaid’s Beginning
Money infusion was not the final answer; it was just a means to an end. The real question remains the same we continue to ask today — how should health…
Evidence Based Decision Making: Regression and Discretion
Good governance of public goods takes on different shapes at the local, state and federal levels of government. However, one thing that remains the same is that there are times…
Thinking Strategically in the Cyber Domain
Holding people accountable by measuring performance has almost become a daily routine for public administrators and it has been embedded in federal organization’s business processes and policies. Despite this, resistance…
The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment to our Constitution brought us many things. Many of the problems rural white Protestants looked to solve were amplified further. Instead, the newly industrialized metropolis’ proved to…
Co-opting Civic Tech
The blueprint for effective public service is a moving target. Definitions of efficiency change from era to era and are often impersonal. Technology is that way. Each time we believed…
The Failure of Ideology
The generalization that people and organizations act in their political interest may be true, but predicting what that might mean in practice is impossible, because there are even more political…
The Importance of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
Education is not cheap and tuition rates across the country continue to rise every year. For many students like myself, the only way to cover the costs is by taking…
Empowerment: A Requirement for Success
This is the final of four columns about a simple, but powerful, formula: Success = (Competence + Motivation)*Empowerment. Empowerment, as I’ve defined it for the formula, is the total of…
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