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What’s Next for Food Security?
Food security is a major concern of governmental, nongovernmental and international organizations for moral, health, economic and sometimes for national security reasons. History has demonstrated that food insecurity does not…
World Cup Soccer and Policymaking: Strategies for Success
Winning the World Cup, or merely qualifying, as the United States failed to do for this summer’s competition, requires tactics and principles that can provide lessons for successful policymaking and…
Employee Valuation: The “A-ha” Moment!
Are Administrators not investing in people because of low output (read: productivity and widgets), or, as Administrators, have we underinvested in our greatest commodity: People? We must have an “A-ha”…
The Tragedy of Public Management
Public managers must be guardians of the public trust who know how to help build a Good Society. Sustainability — which stresses justice across the interdependent domains of the economy,…
Where are Government’s Great Places to Work?
The train has left the station. In every other sector there is a focus on the policies and practices which make organizations “great places to work.” Government’s workforce problems—the aging…
Leadership Lessons We Can Learn from Dr. Martin Luther King’s Life of Service
King finished the speech outline at about midnight and then wrote a draft in longhand. One of his aides who went to King's suite that night saw words crossed out…
Ideas for a Federal Government Intervention to Improve Conditions in the U.S. South
A 2017 report on health outcomes in the states highlights how poorly populations in the South are fairing when it comes to their physical well-being. Privately, many of my colleagues…
How MPA Students Can Have an Edge
I suggest MPA courses be heavily weighted toward practitioner skills and knowledge to give students the best chance in a tough job market. MPA students can gain an edge in…
Public Administration: An Art Worth Saving
The world has produced a litany of manifestations and descriptions of public administration. In doing so, almost 200 countries have succeeded in creating a parade of acronyms, organizational charts, job…
Bags Packed? Public Service Empowerment after Disaster
They are everywhere. I keep running into them - these people who deployed in support of the 2017 hurricane season. Voluntary organizations, the private sector – you name it and…
Dreamers, DACA and the Fourteenth Amendment
While it’s stated there are over 800,000 DACA recipients in this country currently, Rhode Island’s numbers hover somewhere around 1,200. Under the Trump Administration, only 250 qualify for DACA renewal.…
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