When Federal Employees Telecommute, Why Are Agencies in D.C.?
I have to agree. I thought that this was one good thing that Trump proposed.
OPINION | COMMENTARY
When Federal Employees Telecommute, Why Are Agencies in D.C.?
The idea of moving offices to the heartland has been floated for years. Its never been more relevant.
By Faith Bottum
Nov. 26, 2021 5:42 pm ET
The metropolitan area of Detroit has around 1.7 million square feet of vacant office space. Surely theres room for the Federal Highway Administration in all that. With only 41,000 people, Pine Bluff, Ark., has around 41,000 square feet of vacant commercial space. Couldnt the headquarters of, say, the U.S. Department of Agricultures Rural Business-Cooperative Service be squeezed in there somewhere?
Detroit has been in decline for decades, losing 65% of its population since 1950, and Pine Bluff is often named high on lists of declining towns. So why cant the federal government move some of its operations to those cities?
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