It’s Public Service Recognition Week and the Council for Excellence in Government has kicked off the festivities with a survey about the federal bureaucracy. In a poll of 18-to-29-year-olds, apparently also known as millennials, the survey found out that if asked by a parent, teacher, or new president of the United States to work as a civil servant, millennials would actually be fairly interested.

But as the Washington Post’s Stephen Barr reports, 60 percent have never been asked. Survey respondents often equate serving the country with military service — not, say, making the Medicaid system more efficient, creating a new energy policy, or helping rebuild the nation’s infrastructure.  Read Barr here.  MB

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