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A reminder that the AV CJ program can provide funding to invite junior scholars to present causal work related to crime/CJ, in department seminar series. We want to get these researchers on the seminar circuit! Email me if you’re interested.

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At some point when your stated intentions and your actions are so diametrically opposed, we have to question your stated intentions.

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2 more days to apply! Looking forward to reading through applications!

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

This is a lie. Social Security is even more efficient than the private sector. It's a political tool they're wielding to destroy Social Security. "Fraud, waste, and abuse has become the rallying cry for Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...

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Turns out it's hard to get a job in one of the top teams of government when the criterion is merit and not blind loyalty.

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The FEVS is the key dataset for studies on employee engagement, intention to quit, and other key trends in the government workforce. We're working on alternatives now but this is a major loss.

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My friends in state and local government are sharing how 18F inspired them today. If you recently lost your job, state and local government is waiting for you with open arms! Go to civic match @ workforamerica.org or reach out to individual teams.

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Just the ask is dismantling decades of work in building trust and improved take-up of the social safety net.

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DOGE is dismantling all aspect of civic tech in the federal government - both 18F and the US Digital Service were the hubs for skilled technologists who wanted to improve public services. They are now being pushed out of government.

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The DOGE Purge Isn’t About Efficiency—It’s an authoritarian tactic. I wrote a more in depth piece on the empirical evidence showing how liberal-leaning agencies are being disproportionately targeted and how this mirrors authoritarian strategies seen in Hungary and Turkey.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

If you've always found the IRS way too responsive and way too easy to get on the phone, then I've got good news for you.

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🎧Listen to TPL Faculty Director, @elizabethlinos.bsky.social on @nprfreshair.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/0NRI... Learn more about our work on strengthening the government workforce here 👉 peoplelab.hks.harvard.edu/about/

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Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs. DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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@harvardkennedy.bsky.social asked a few of us to comment on the first weeks of DOGE. Read the perspectives of a wide range of faculty: www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Must watch speech by neuroscientist Kailyn Price at a HHS rally protesting funding cuts to science. "Cutting indirect costs is like telling a football team to work with only the players. No lights for the field, no physical therapists for the players, no water for the showers."

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

Send us your best undergrads! Can't think of a more important time to be training a new generation of scholars in conducting research with and for government.

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Remember that “move fast and break things” is the motto of a sector of businesses with a 90% failure rate. The US Government cannot afford a 90% failure rate.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

This is not saving - it's just cutting. Also-if a coder on my team made errors this large, they would be mortified + I would be saying "this is why we check our understanding of the data first, but won't worry, we have code review so that we don't publish nonsense." Also also - they wouldn't.

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Excellent thread. I'd just add that the ANNUAL budget hole created by cuts to indirects (~$185 million at Michigan) is just too large to sustain over the long haul even-- if the University could devote most of it's endowment to this effort (which it can't, as this thread so clearly explains).

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Read the full thread

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DOGE just killed your summer camping trip. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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oh my good lord

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If you have expertise in a technical, seemingly boring, area (how university budgets work, the laws around hiring + firing in the civil service, or how predatory lending operates) please keep explaining it to us. It's not obvious to everyone how these changes will impact lives.

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This.

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I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often the avoidance of loss. So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses not averted?

submitted 15 days ago • 69 comments

Proud of my dad for speaking out like this. Im hopeful that the message will break into the mainstream. www.cbsnews.com/video/a-gove...

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A few months ago, I saw a presentation about this website which features the stories of public servants. Seems even more important and relevant now: www.humansofpublicservice.org

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"The reality is this: if we want the federal government to efficiently and effectively deliver for Americans, we need to invest in strengthening it, not break it." Read this op-ed from Octavia Abell and @elizabethlinos.bsky.social for @govexec.bsky.social www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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The federal workforce isn't "bloated" - as @elizabethlinos.bsky.social explains, the real crisis is critical staffing shortages. Read more here: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

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Octavia Abell and I wrote this before last night's news but the message still holds true - the underlying philosophy behind blanket federal worker purges is harmful for the American public. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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ICYMI: Have you read TPL PhD student @nadiabell.bsky.social's recent op-ed in The Harvard Crimson? Read it here -> www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Erm.

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To put this in context: the number of people who took the "deferred resignation" plan is similar to the number of people who retire each year, and represents about half the natural turnover we expect in any given year www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-a...

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The cruelty is the point.

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What. Is. Happening.

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Truly one of the greats. He gave us the words and the permission to study inequality in a way that has shifted so many careers and in turn impacted so many lives. Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

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"The best advice I have for applying behavioral insights at an organization or system level is to start with the problem, the experience, and the people navigating it every day. The behavioral nudge should come last." @elizabethlinos.bsky.social chibe.upenn.edu/blog/how-to-...

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To be clear, with the current numbers of workers taking the "buyout," the administration has epically failed at their goal.

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Musk staff have access to student aid data now.

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📢 Exciting News! The latest issue of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is out now! 📷 Volume 35, Issue 1 – January 2025: academic.oup.com/jpart/issue/...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Our deep dive into Musk's takeover: Even some officials who like what Musk is doing feel helpless to hold him accountable. His allies are diving in to agencies, gaining access to systems, planning layoffs, and proposing a sweeping AI initiative to review contracts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

submitted 28 days ago • 202 comments

Finally some more comprehensive reporting on the fall of the republic. We’re 10 steps behind. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Undermining the core function of the government was always central premise of project 2025

submitted 29 days ago • 223 comments

America, this is an emergency. There are many issues at the moment. This is one of the most serious.

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The deep and fundamental misunderstanding that is leading to so many harmful policies.

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