Right after setting her out-of-office email on October 1, one furloughed US Department of Agriculture worker filed for unemployment benefits to help her pay for food, rent and other necessities during ...

Ginette Young lined up with hundreds of furloughed federal workers ahead of a special food bank distribution on Tuesday in a suburb just outside the District of Columbia. “I’m here because I’ve had no ...

Maryland ended 2025 with almost 15,000 fewer federal jobs than it had at the start of the year, according to the latest ...

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week and remain at historically healthy levels despite ...

According to Office of Personnel Management data, as of September 2024, around 5% -- or roughly 100,000 -- of the federal workforce was older than 65. Considering the large number of employees taking ...

This year has been tough for many who work for the government as President Donald Trump kept his pledge to shrink the federal workforce. Just before Election Day 2024, the federal workforce employed ...

The U.S. added 64,000 jobs in November as the unemployment rate rose to 4.6 percent, according to delayed data released Tuesday by the Labor Department. Economists had forecast a gain of 40,000 jobs ...

The federal government shutdown canceled a second straight jobs report, but private data sources suggest the labor market has weakened modestly since summer. By Ben Casselman Job growth has remained ...