Yields have fallen over the past few weeks, so "any decent excuse that rates move up a little bit after that big rally" may have occurred as the market digested the report — which was a "little bit of ...

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Pennsylvania’s Capitol was full of high ideals, pomp and circumstance and rhetoric Tuesday as Gov. Josh Shapiro took the ...

Thousands of federal workers have accepted the Trump administration’s buyout offer — taking eight months’ pay and benefits in exchange for walking away from the government workforce ...

The message said that if the employees agreed to resign by Feb. 6 they could stay on the federal payroll until Sept. 30 and be placed on administrative leave during that time, doing no work.

A federal judge on Monday left a pause on the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program in place while he mulls a legal challenge to the plan, extending the uncertainty confronting ...

He reaches this conclusion by not counting federal payroll taxes — which are larger for most people than income taxes — as though they were taxes at all. But they are taxes: If you think they ...

By Lydia DePillis When it comes to the federal payroll, two seemingly contradictory things are true. One, the Biden administration went on a hiring spree that expanded the government work force at ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal workers by offering them financial incentives, the latest tumult for government ...

All federal employees have been offered eight months of pay and benefits through September if they resign. The email, titled “Fork in the Road Reminder,” notes in bold that the buyout offer ...