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Barrett and Greene

Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene

Contributors

Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene, who have analyzed, researched and written about state and local government for over 30 years, are contributors to Governing; executive advisors for the American Society for Public Administration; visiting fellows at the IBM Center for the Business of Government; advisors to the Government Finance Officers Association; columnists for Government Finance Review; commentary editors for the International Journal of Public Administrators; and senior advisors to the Government Finance Research Center at the University of Illinois, Chicago. They are also fellows at the National Academy of Public Administration.

Their latest book, co-authored with Donald F. Kettl, is “The Little Guide to Writing for Impact,” published in 2024. For more information on them and their work, visit their website at greenebarrett.com.

Whether it's violence like the Virginia Beach shooting at a municipal building, or danger due to the nature of the job, government workers lack health and safety protections in nearly half the states.
Local governments are changing the frequency of performance evaluations, who receives them and what they're assessing.
For years, hundreds of cities and counties have been saving money by letting their employees use cheaper drugs from other countries.
Without enough volunteers to respond to emergencies, some fire departments are cutting services or even shutting down. Most are changing the way they recruit.
The state has made a number of key reforms to streamline its recruiting and hiring. One big change? Using plain English.
A new study shows the depth -- and the root causes -- of the public sector's workforce problem.
This form of pay inequity, referred to as salary inversion, is making it difficult to fill supervisor positions in the public sector.
The amount of missing and unusable public-sector data is stunning.
Protesting teachers likely won't be the only public employees who see pay raises and workplace improvements this year.
The government shutdown exposed the financial insecurity and stress of many public servants.