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Jun 29, 2021

The federal eviction moratorium was extended last week.  The reprieve will now extend until the end of July, but the burden is still on states to create rental assistance programs to avoid evictions. The moratorium provides protection for more than 43 million renters across the across the U.S., but the CDC has...


Jun 29, 2021

Even in a time of pandemic-related stresses, organizations are increasingly interested in getting maximum performance out of employees. While some employees rise to the challenge of managers’ high expectations, other staffers may underperform or worse. What is the level of performance pressure that managers can use to...


Jun 28, 2021

Last fall, when then-President Donald Trump signed the Executive Order colloquially called the Schedule F order, public administration experts, good government groups and federal public service unions vociferously criticized the order, with some even claiming it would bring the U.S. back to the spoils system....


Jun 24, 2021

Kiran Ahuja was confirmed this week as the director of the Office of Personnel Management by the Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the 50-50 party-line vote. Ahuja will be the first permanent OPM chief since March of 2020 and will step into the role of administering President Joe Biden’s federal...


Jun 23, 2021

Last week, the Biden administration designated Juneteenth as a federal holiday, marking the first time the day has been recognized nationwide as such. A report released last week by the McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility and the McKinsey Global Institute identifies the biggest gaps Black people continue to...