President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his administration's decision to lay off about half of the U.S. Department of Education's staff, citing the department's own data on the U.S.'s ...

Thursday is the deadline for federal agencies and departments to give the Trump administration their plans for large-scale layoffs, and the details about how many people will be fired are expected ...

Democratic attorneys general in Washington, D.C., and 20 states sued Thursday over the Trump administration’s efforts to lay off nearly half of the Education Department workforce. Earlier this ...

We hoped industry layoffs would relent in 2024. That's not what happened. Overall, biopharma layoffs rose 3% last year compared to 2023, according to an analysis of yearly data. So, here we are ...

Massive layoffs initiated this week at the Education Department could hamstring the federal government’s efforts to assist students with disabilities, former officials and education experts said ...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon affirmed late Tuesday that mass layoffs are the first step toward shuttering the Education Department — a longtime goal of President Trump’s since his time on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department plans to lay off more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the organization’s staff – a prelude to President Trump’s plan to ...

The next big deadline is Thursday, when agencies need to submit plans for large-scale layoffs, called a reduction in force. Agencies may notify employees any day that their jobs are expiring ...

The White House and the Office of Personnel Management did not respond to requests for comment about whether agencies’ plans will be made public or about the scope or timing of layoffs across ...

I know what it’s like to grow up in a household where a steady paycheck means everything. My mother, a nurse in Miami, worked long shifts to keep me and my brother fed, housed and hopeful for a ...

He's also worked at U.S. 1, Community News Service and the Middletown Transcript. Ongoing layoffs of federal workers would hurt the economies of Washington, D.C., and its outlying suburbs the hardest.

The next big deadline is Thursday, when agencies need to submit plans for large-scale layoffs, called a reduction in force. Agencies may notify employees any day that their jobs are expiring ...