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 ...

Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and ...

President Donald Trump has moved to dramatically shrink the size of the federal workforce and mass terminations have already ...

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

Thousands of people have lost their jobs, although the final number isn't clear. One fired worker says, "they have no idea ...

CPAC gathering: Mr. Trump made a triumphant return to the Conservative Political Action Conference, reveling in his acts of ...

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 ...

"Institutional knowledge is good, and government is good," said former U.S. Attorney Gary Restaino in an interview with The ...

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

These are not all interchangeable cogs in the federal machinery. They are the people who ... In 1883, Congress created the United States Civil Service Commission to replace the Spoils System with ...