While protestors rallied against the mitigation strategies from government recently, a former senior economist at the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers explains how long we will have to stay on lockdown.

Amazon, Microsoft and President Trump are all in the midst of a huge fight about a $10 billion contract.

The pandemic has many USDA workers, including meat inspectors, concerned about protections provided for them from the agency.

The art of communicating to the public and to employees is a skill set particularly valuable during the pandemic.

Samantha Donaldson, the Partnership for Public Service’s Vice President of Communications, joined the program to talk about communication clarity for agencies during the coronavirus crisis.

More than 120,000 public and private schools have closed or shifted to distance learning due to the coronavirus. How are the school districts, teachers and students adjusting?

The CARES Act has over $2 trillion in money allocated to it, but what is the oversight?

The White House, Energy Department and Pentagon are using computing to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Trump has spoken quite a bit about how transparent his administration is, but has defined the term in a way that relies entirely on the administration itself. The president has threatened to out anonymous whistleblowers and has threatened individual public servants who testified during his impeachment inquiry. He has attacked inspectors general, Congressional oversight and, just this week, fired several IGS tasked with overseeing massive public programs.

Eric Katz and Courtney Bublé joined the podcast to discuss how agencies are dealing with the pandemic after about 10 weeks of it being in the U.S.

Disaster management is never easy for any government. Floods, earthquakes, wildfires and the like come quick and even the most prepared government can be caught without a plan, scrambling to serve those affected. How can all levels of government confront these challenges while balancing the safety of public servants and the citizenry? How can management keep morale up under the cloud of a global pandemic?