Ag economists criticize USDA plans to move research agencies to Kansas City - Entrepreneur Generations

In their most recent "Policy Pennings" column, Harwood Schaffer and Daryll Ray of the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center at the University of Tennessee take the U.S. Department of Agriculture to task for moving two of its research organizations from Washington D.C. to Kansas City.

The decision to move the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture has been widely criticized as a political move meant to force employees to quit rather than relocate, allowing the administration to install more loyal employees. 

"From our perspective both of these decisions reflect the administration’s hostility to the “deep state.” What the administration calls the deep state we see as the apolitical work of the dedicated civil servants who carry on their work regardless of the political affiliation of the administration that happens to be in power," Schaffer and Ray write.

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