WASHINGTON (AP) — Evelyn Seabrook was able to buy a home even though she had only a high school diploma. Glenn Flood worked his way up the career ladder to become a public affairs officer for ...

The federal government is the nation's largest employer, yet the size of its workforce hasn't kept up with U.S. population ...

Reportedly the biggest layoff of probationary federal workers so far under new Trump administration orders is underway today at the Internal Revenue Service.

President Trump and Elon Musk have spent several weeks slashing federal jobs — often in defiance of legal limits — and there ...

Federal layoffs are starting with huge numbers of probationary workers, and there are warnings of bigger cuts on the way.

Whether it sees Elon Musk’s DOGE as a success or a failure, Whitehall should see it as a warning. Because institutions which ...

Civil service is another term for “professional workforce” and we want this in government, right? And yet, as I write this, ...

While a chunk of federal workers (about 20 percent) are in Washington, D.C., and the neighboring states of Maryland ... That led to the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, which created a merit ...