New data showed which sectors added more jobs than others in 2025. Healthcare had a lot of job growth, while the federal ...

The number of employees on the federal government’s payroll has dropped by 277,000 since President Donald Trump took office ...

A college student spent months applying to the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Internship Program. Thousands apply, few are selected. She made it through applications, interviews, ...

The Office of Personnel Management last month quietly sought to backpedal on plans to evaluate federal job seekers on a series of essay questions, after critics accused the measure of politicizing the ...

Trump extended a hiring freeze through Oct. 15 with exceptions for the military, immigration enforcement and national security. The Department of Veterans Affairs said it has cut 17,000 staffers since ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Merit Hiring Plan” asks applicants for federal government jobs to write an essay naming their favorite Trump policy or executive order and how they would implement it.

This story has been updated at 1:30 p.m. ET. A trio of federal employee unions on Thursday sued the Office of Personnel Management seeking to excise essay questions recently added to most federal job ...

This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. State budget officials say a plan to hire ...

On his quest to dramatically shrink the federal workforce, President Trump has tried many things. Through his Office of Personnel Management, he invited just about the entire 2 million-plus civilian ...

Maryland lost nearly 25,000 federal jobs in 2025, the largest decline of any state in the nation, according to new employment estimates released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, underscoring ...

A court-authorized opt-in process is now open in the Workday AI hiring lawsuit, raising major questions about age ...