Federal employment is slipping at a pace that is starting to reshape how Washington touches daily life, from airport security lines to Social Security call centers. The headline story is not just that ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland lost nearly 25,000 federal jobs in 2025, according to official estimates — more than any other state in the country. A Bureau of Labor Statistics report indicates that the ...

The headcount reduction by the federal government reached 97,000 since January, including a further reduction of 3,000 civilian employees in September. State governments have shed 25,000 employees ...

In what could be the last piece of federal jobs data released this week if the government shuts down, a new report Tuesday showed that the number of available roles remains low for the year, a sign ...

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 ...

The national hiring rate has stalled at 3.2%, levels not seen in two decades. Former federal workers who took a deferred resignation say the job market is brutal. The nation’s 4.3% unemployment rate, ...

Maryland ended 2025 with almost 15,000 fewer federal jobs than it had at the start of the year, according to the latest estimates from the Maryland Department of Labor. The department reported in ...

The job losses at the federal government and at state governments have hit nonfarm employment all year, and hard. State governments shed 45,000 jobs in 2025, including another 7,000 in December, after ...