Tag / Bureaucracy
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Red Tape Blues: The Need For More Bureaucratic Independence
We often use ‘bureaucracy’ as a dirty word. Everyone has a horror story about waiting in line for hours at the DMV or spending ages trying to file their taxes correctly. Dealing with red tape has become part of Americans’ day-to-day life. [su_pullquote align=”right”]The legislative branch makes policy, but bureaucracy is how policy actually happens.[/su_pullquote]Since most…
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The Power of People (and the Headache of Counting Them)
It’s census time. In the United States, people have been filling out and mailing forms, in addition to being interviewed by officials from the Department of Census. The feat of carrying out a survey of 300 million people is as difficult as it is important. Simultaneously, in another part of the world, census officials are…
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