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

U.S. employers added a suprisingly solid 119,000 jobs in September, the government said, issuing a key economic report that ...

A national park worker cuts up a fallen tree in the southbound lane of G.W. Parkway after a heavy thunderstorm in Alexandria, Va., in 2010. (Linda Davidson/The Washington Post) Analysis by Andrew Van ...

The headcount reduction by the federal government reached 97,000 since January, including a further reduction of 3,000 ...

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 ...

Jobs in the renewable energy sector grew in 2021 as fossil fuel employment declined – even as fossil fuel production increased – according to a report released Tuesday by the Department of Energy.