REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- Kim Midkiff remembers a time when hiring into federal civilian service was much like winning the "golden ticket" in a state lottery. When Midkiff was a teenager growing up in ...

(Editor's note: This is the first in a four-part series on the Army Civilian workforce.) REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- Kim Midkiff remembers a time when hiring into federal civilian service was much like ...

Keir Starmer has promised "a renewed civil service; more agile, mission-focused and more productive". Like every government in recent history, his is pushing for improved "delivery"; for better ...

The hosts of the Throughline podcast bring us the story of how a presidential assassination gave rise to the modern federal civil service. The federal government is the largest employer in the U.S., ...

President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order creating a new classification of “policy-making” federal employees that could strip swaths of the federal workforce of civil service protections ...

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are working to dramatically reduce the size of the federal civil service. They have already laid off numerous government employees who work on issues ranging from ...

Earlier this year President Trump dealt another blow to the civil service with an executive order establishing a new “Schedule G” classification expanding the number of political appointments in ...

The civil service has grown by 7,000 staff over the past year despite pledges by past governments and the current administration to cut costs and numbers. There were 549,660 civil servants at the end ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Lea Uradu, J.D., is a Maryland state registered tax preparer, state-certified notary public, ...