Feds hip to their recruiting challenges

Detroit Free Press: After President John F. Kennedy’s famous call to “ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country,” young people flocked to government service.

These days, not so much. Only 7 percent of all public-sector workers — at the federal, state, county and municipal level — are 30 or younger, compared with more than 20 percent in the mid-1970s.

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