As the American economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, declines in employment in state and local governments threaten the delivery of crucial services and the economic security of workers, ...

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a city of 411,000 with a violent crime rate twice the national average, police officials are struggling to fill 160 vacant officer jobs. Having 800 officers do the work of nearly 1 ...

The June jobs report revealed higher than expected job growth, with 206,000 new jobs created. However, a third of those jobs were in the government sector. Government employment rose by 70,000, which ...

During the 43-day U.S. government shutdown, investors, businesses, policymakers and the Federal Reserve groped in the dark ...