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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federal judge sharply criticized an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice over Pentagon policy asserting that the U.S ...