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Government Capacity
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Successful Pooled Hiring Starts With Diving the Deep End

…shortly). But the same period produced plenty of pooled actions that generated duplicative work, agency foot-dragging, and candidates who aged off certificates before anyone made them an offer. FAS and…

05.07.26 | 17 min read
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Government Capacity
Policy Memo
Report
Public Participation IS the Ingenuity We Need

…in communities historically marginalized by race or class. Without organizational support, individuals often lack the connections, information, and trust to translate lived experience into effective engagement. Organization helps aggregate that…

04.29.26 | 33 min read
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Government Capacity
Policy Memo
Report
Four Innovations Driving Climate Progress in State Government

…Power is a U.S.-based non-profit organization focused on reducing the bureaucratic impediments to deploying residential solar and battery storage. The organization’s research finds that a typical residential solar installation in…

04.22.26 | 18 min read
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State & Local Innovation
Press release
Local Government Research Needs Revealed in The Civic Research Agenda, a New Report Published by the Federation of American Scientists

…1945 by scientists in response to the atomic bomb, FAS continues to bring scientific rigor and analysis to address national challenges. More information about FAS’s work at fas.org. The State…

04.07.26 | 3 min read
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State & Local Innovation
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Clearing the Roadblocks to Transportation Innovation

…institutions responsible for researching, testing, and deploying these innovations were largely designed for a different era, with funding and governance structures organized around distinct transportation modes, limiting their ability to…

04.01.26 | 5 min read
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