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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sheila writes about work culture, age and talent sustainability. Federal job cuts are disproportionately impacting women of all ...

This article was produced by Capital & Main, an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political, and social issues. It is co-published here with permission. Kerene Tayloe ...

The federal government partially shut down early Saturday as Congress did not agree on funding for several agencies before the midnight deadline. But this shutdown is likely to be less painful than ...

California and the Bay Area have each seen federal jobs disappear in 2025. With a government shutdown now in effect, most of the federal workers still employed won’t be getting paid. That’s a lot of ...

Last week, the Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s HR agency, announced that it was removing 115 job descriptions from the list of occupations, including “bowling equipment ...

Public sector hiring was positive last month, despite fears that government hiring would languish. Overall, the public sector ...

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 ...