Public Service Recognition Week

Throughout the Nation and around the world, public employees use Public Service Recognition Week to educate citizens about the many ways in which the Federal government serves the people and how federal government services make life better for all of us.

Learn all about this year’s Public Service Recognition Week. April 16, 2010

Ideas range from sending letters to public employees to organizing a celebration showcasing the work of government agencies in your local area. Tom Fox, Director of the Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Government Leadership, explains them to us.

Public Service Recognition Week is upon us, and there’s a new component this year.

Three Pentagon Force Protection Agency officers responded when a lone gunman opened fire at the main entrance to the Pentagon on March 4, 2010. We learn more in this encomium from Sen. Ted Kaufman.

A bill has been introduced that would let the Office of Personnel Management extend health insurance to adult children of federal employees this year, instead of having them wait for the Affordable Health Care Act that was signed by President Obama in March.

As the head of the IRS’s Electronic Tax Administration, Terrence Lutes became the government’s evangelist for online tax filing. We learn more in this encomium from Sen. Ted Kaufman.

WFED’s Jason Miller reports.

Senior administration officials encourage and promote federal service during Public Service Recognition Week. President Obama sends letter recognizing federal, state and local government employees.

Kirke Harper with the Public Employees Roundtable, and Jim Seymour with the Partnership for Public Service, will talk about why the week is so important. April 8, 2011