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 ...

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

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

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

Since President Donald Trump began his second term last month, he has focused on dramatically reducing the federal workforce ...

As the hard-charging DOGE has sought to make its imprint on the federal government, several high-profile officials have ...

Every time a new administration takes office, the federal civil service system faces scrutiny ... employees are not at all unique in the United States; in fact, similar protections are enjoyed ...

TO GET a sense of what Donald Trump’s first week did to the federal government ... his administration to redesignate many career civil service jobs as political and thereby remove the usual ...

Other federal agencies and appointees—including leaders of the United States military—were impediments ... Trump’s campaign against the civil service, as one manager working in the federal ...