The national hiring rate has stalled at 3.2%, levels not seen in two decades. Former federal workers who took a deferred resignation say the job market is brutal.

When federal scientist and educator Beth Tuck turned 40 this year, she expected to be settling into a long-term government ...

After struggling to find a job for 14 months, freelance writer Michael Stahl got an federal job offer in February — then it was rescinded in March.

The federal government initiated a shutdown at midnight Oct. 1, closing hundreds of offices, putting hundreds of thousands of workers on furlough, and forcing others to work without pay. While ...

Some 100,000 federal workers came off the government’s payroll this week, the latest bit of unwelcome news for the softening U.S. labor market.The departures coincide with the government shutdown, ...

Roughly 100,000 federal employees officially left the government payroll this week, deepening concerns about the softening U.S. job market, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The departures ...

WASHINGTON — As part of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)'s new merit-based hiring plan, those looking to join the federal workforce will have to answer a series of essay questions about their ...

Becoming a federal prosecutor was a longtime professional dream for Erika Evans, one she achieved nearly four years ago. But Evans soured on her job as an assistant US attorney in Seattle this year ...

A former federal worker had been working as a designer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for five years when a 5:30 a.m. email put the kibosh on her government career. She ...

A typical morning in Taylor’s house includes getting breakfast for his toddler before rushing to his federal job. But first, there’s drop off at daycare. Taylor lives and works in the Southeast, but ...

It turns out there was not a surge in hiring. Instead, the seasonal adjustment to the data, meant to account for schools getting out, may have distorted the numbers in June. The U.S. economy added 147 ...

The headcount reduction by the federal government reached 97,000 since January, including a further reduction of 3,000 ...