Why Government's Cool Again

We've heard working for government has become cool again. Here's some anecdotal evidence.

Stephen Goldsmith -- former Republican mayor of Indianapolis, chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service, and a professor of government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University -- spoke on Tuesday at the Senior Executives Association's annual conference. Near the end of his keynote speech, he said that when he used to ask a class of students at the Kennedy school how many planned to go work for government, only about 20 percent raised their hands. Now when he asks how many plan to go work for President Obama, "about 98 percent of the class raises their hands."

The increase in interest can be attributed to the administration's emphasis on technology.