I need to do this.” So Michael started working with other queer people in his agency to form a monthly group for LGBTQ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Now in their late 70s and early 80s, the three retirees are part of a generation of Black Americans who used the military and federal civil service to ... Only 5 states have enhanced REAL IDs ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the military to the United States Postal Service to sundry federal agencies ... parts of the country to adopt. After the Civil War, the federal government imposed Reconstruction and ...