Sound federal manpower policy can destabilize the local agencies it funds

Evidence

Restricting CETA funds to the chronically unemployed may be sound manpower policy, but it threatens to throw cities’ skilled, middle-class, service-providing agencies into disarray. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1286

Categorization

• XREF: Dovetails with the reader’s interest in how policy design at the top degrades the frontline discretion it depends on.