Source: Niskanen Center
by Gabe Menchaca
“You’d never know it from the cavalcade of federally focused headlines this past year, but most public servants in the United States don’t work for the federal government. They work for states and localities, the ‘laboratories of democracy’ that staff our schools, maintain our roads, manage our prisons, and administer our social safety net. And yet when it comes to understanding how these governments work — how they hire, pay, evaluate, and retain the people who do this work — we all operate largely in the dark. The Niskanen Center partnered with the National Academy of Public Administration to change that and bring Americans closer to understanding their government.” (02/19/26)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/how-do-states-manage-their-workforces-anyway/