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The Sisyphus Files – Repeated Issues in Performance Audits

Barrett & Greene

In this, the second episode of this series, we’re looking at two related problems that come up over and over again: Employees who leave their jobs but retain access to sensitive government technology systems. For those individuals, the cutoff only occurred between a year and 25 months after they left government, according to the audit.

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. Supporting government voting registration and resource platforms through high demand. In 2021, Democracy Works continued to make an impact and sent 23.3

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Gen Z has fewer Black federal employees than other generational groups

Partnership for Public Service

Additionally, the federal government has a duty to represent all of the people in this country. Those in Gen Z were born between 1997 and 2012, making them less than 25 years old in 2021. Yet Gen Z trailed the federal government in terms of people of color by 2.7%. of the total federal workforce. behind the federal average.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In Greater Salt Lake, governments mostly don't do glass recycling directly.

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). Similarly, state and local governments might institute “fair share” policies that require all communities to harbor some responsibility for housing the most vulnerable among us. Coordination challenges between agencies (e.g., Conclusion.

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FIRST AMENDMENT/PUBLIC HEALTH: Freedom of Religion During the COVID-19 Pandemic

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

As illustrated below, even the fundamental right to gather in worship can be somewhat restricted by the government (i.e., 2012, 2019 (2017). See Council of State Governments, Executive Orders (last visited Apr. 519, 535-36 (2012). to communicable disease or the latter to ill health or death." First Amendment.

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Lessons Learned from TANF Clients

Barrett & Greene

A PhD in Social Work, Vogel-Ferguson also has directed research studies and program evaluations with state and regional level government agencies and is the principal investigator of studies on other topics, including refugee support, employment of formerly chronically homeless individuals and the implementation of trauma informed approaches.

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