An Inside Climate News analysis of just-released federal workforce data shows more than 4,000 employees departed between January 2025 and January 2026, including a majority of team leaders.

A year after Gov. Josh Shapiro streamlined the process for federal workers to get state government jobs, hundreds are working for the state.

NASA and the Office of Personnel Management have announced a push to recruit engineers and technologists less than a year after the space agency prompted thousands of employees to leave as part of ...

California Highway Patrol officers and Cal Fire firefighters are asking the state for a new retirement option that would complement their CalPERS pensions. It might reduce payroll costs to the state.

OPM itself has described new separation mechanisms that accelerated departures in 2025, including a “Deferred Resignation Program.” Consequently, 317,000 federal employees left the government last ...

NASA's pushed-back Moon landing is making it clearer than ever that its stumbling in its race to the Moon with China.

Nine House members inquired about reports that constituents have not received physical copies of their 1099-R forms and have ...

USAGM set a March 9 deadline for voluntary buyouts as a federal judge prepares to rule on the legality of workforce reductions ordered under Kari Lake.

The agency’s latest move to offer buyouts to employees, comes as Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is set to rule in early March on the legality of Lake’s ...

The last year was marked by turmoil at science agencies and the administration’s stated desire to shrink the federal ...

Amid President Trump’s bureaucracy-slashing directives, the federal workforce shrunk by about nearly 10 percent in 2025.

Following last year’s cuts, the chief management officer of the federal research funding agency says its number of employees ...