Civilian employment at the federal government accounts for less than 1.9% of total payrolls. Today’s employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics about jobs at establishments is based on who is ...

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 24: As the government lays of workers, what is the unemployment impact likely to be? (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Job cuts are a little over 172,000 for February, ...

Government jobs surged in June, raising questions over the continued activities of the Department of Government Efficiency following Elon Musk's recent exit. According to Thursday's jobs report from ...

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 ...

While the private sector added 172,000 jobs to start off 2026, the government moved in the opposite direction. The public sector shed about 42,000 jobs in January, most of it concentrated in the ...

Data from the jobs report shows federal-government employment fell by 162,000 positions in October, as employees who took deferred-resignation offers from the Trump administration came off payrolls.