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January 24, 2019                                                                                                                    Bill Valdez
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Are Declines in U.S. Federal Workforce Capabilities Putting Our Government at Risk of Failing?

The Senior Executives Association (SEA), in partnership with university and think tank researchers, announced today the release of a major academic study that analyzed the impact of numerous long-term trends that the study’s authors have concluded have significantly diminished the capacity of the Federal Government’s workforce and institutions to respond to rapid cycle stressful events.

“Our study’s findings pointed toward the most extreme plausible explanations for the trends we analyzed and their future implications,” said Dr. Molly Jahn, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a former senior political appointee at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “We concluded that U.S. Federal Government civil servants are the canaries in the mines of the Nation, telling us that the air is growing dangerously foul. Perhaps not just the capacity of the U.S. Federal Government to respond to domestic and foreign crises is at risk, but also our civic norms and constitutional order.”

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