A hard year for federal workers offers a real-time lesson in resilience
- Written by Anne Pisor, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Demography, Penn State
Imagine going from having a book club with your co-workers to seeing them only on a Signal chat where every member has to be vetted – and the main conversation topic is when you might lose your job.
That’s what it was like for workers at one federal agency earlier this year.
“I’d never seen anything like the sort of...







