The Trump administration has overseen a big drop in the federal workforce. That's great. Unfortunately, the private sector is struggling too.

The U.S. added 64,000 jobs in November as the unemployment rate rose to 4.6 percent, according to delayed data released Tuesday by the Labor Department. Economists had forecast a gain of 40,000

The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November, the highest since 2021. But this isn’t a standard recession: The BLS isn’t seeing layoffs happen as much in the private sector. Instead, it continues to see a virtual hiring freeze, two-thirds of a year after the bottom fell out of employment growth in April.

As Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has said, ongoing analysis suggests that the reported number of new jobs is probably off by tens of thousands.

Nathan Hooven is a disabled Air Force veteran who voted for Donald Trump in November. Barely three months later, he's now unemployed and says he feels betrayed by the president’s dramatic downsizing of the federal government that cost him his job.

Jim Frederick is getting an up-close look at government bureaucracy that he never wanted to see. It’s been more than a month since he filed for jobless benefits after resigning from a position in the Biden administration in January. The benefits haven ...

When federal scientist and educator Beth Tuck turned 40 this year, she expected to be settling into a long-term government career. Instead, she was couch surfing, scooping ice cream to make ends meet and trying to salvage a two-decade path in science education.

The upheaval to the federal workforce in 2025 drove tens of thousands of federal employees to leave their jobs. One former employee of the Veterans Health Administration reflects on the year.

Amid ongoing cuts to the federal workforce, D.C. is strategizing how to cushion the blow by connecting those civil servants to new jobs. During a town hall for federal workers, Mayor Muriel Bowser shared details Wednesday about an upcoming job fair that ...