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March 24, 2014

Politics Tech

Sinkhole of Bureaucracy

In an old mine an hour north of Pittsburgh, 600 federal employees manage paperwork for the government’s retirement system. By hand. On paper. Without computers. The same exact way they always have.

David A. Fahrenthold Washington Post Mar 2014 Permalink