Street-level agencies can never be adequately resourced

Evidence

Yet street-level bureaucracies, with certain other government agencies, chronically experience resource constraints. These agencies are virtually never adequately provided for, and perhaps cannot be adequately provided for. Why is this so? — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 276

Categorization

• XREF: Why ‘virtually never adequately provided’ — since demand tracks supply (next paragraph), adequacy is a moving target; connects to the reader’s interest in why bureaucratic categories entrench faster than interventions fix them. — connects to: More staff cannot fix client processing if core working conditions stay unchanged — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 303
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source