The hiring push is unfolding under new rules designed to give the White House greater influence over the government’s 2 million-person civilian workforce.

The federal workforce shrank by 10.3% in 2025, losing nearly 238,000 workers. Among major agencies, the Education department ...

Schumer accused the Trump Administration of cutting jobs with a chainsaw, disrupting the lives of former federal workers and causing delays and chaos for New Yorkers who rely on federal services. Cuts ...

Hurricane Helene ravaged western North Carolina in the fall of 2024, devastating farms nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Healthy jobs report: The federal government's jobs report released this morning shows unexpectedly healthy employment growth in January. The unemployment rate is still up from a year ago, when it sat ...

The Federal Reserve is still widely expected to hold interest rates steady when its officials next meet on March 17-18.

Note: Figures for new hires exclude people who transferred into publicly reported federal jobs from elsewhere in the federal government. “Separations” includes quits, retirements, terminations and ...