Technology
If the Great Recession of 2008-2009 when millions of local public sector workers lost their jobs is any indication, the pandemic’s impact on this sector in 2020 will be staggering. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the near term effects on state and local employment will be devastating. In part 2 of his interview on Ask the CIO: SLED Edition with host John Thomas Flynn, Alan Shark, the long-time executive director of the Public Technology Institute (PTI), said how the answers could lie in telework and technology.