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A "Now Hiring" sign hangs in the window of a hair salon in Medford, Massachusetts

Weekly unemployment filings drop in a sign that layoffs continue to stay low

By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought at the White House

Judge extends order barring the Trump administration from firing federal workers during the shutdown

A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday indefinitely barred the Trump administration from firing federal employees during the government shutdown, saying that labor unions were likely to prevail on their claims that the cuts were arbitrary and politically motivated.

By Janie Har, Associated Press

FILE PHOTO: Shopping carts from a Target store are lined up in Encinitas

Target is eliminating 1,800 corporate jobs as it looks to reclaim its lost luster

Target, which has about 1,980 U.S. stores, lost ground to Walmart and Amazon in recent years as inflation caused shoppers to curtail their discretionary spending.

By Lisa Leff, Associated Press

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Vought talks to reporters on Capitol Hill

Federal workforce shutdown cuts will ‘probably’ exceed 10,000, Vought says

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said in an interview Wednesday on “The Charlie Kirk Show” that many more workforce cuts, known was RIFS or reductions-in-force plans, are planned as long as the shutdown continues.

By Associated Press

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) works during the first day of a partial U.S. government shutdown in Burbank

Interactive: How the government shutdown affects different agencies

President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors.

By Associated Press

WATCH: With government shuttered, Leavitt says Trump’s layoffs likely ‘in the thousands’

By Lisa Mascaro, Josh Boak, Seung Min Kim, Associated Press

“If they don’t want further harm on their constituents back home, then they need to reopen the government," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday of Democrats.

U.S. job openings in August were essentially unchanged amid economic uncertainty

By Paul Wiseman, Associated Press

Job openings remain at healthy levels but have fallen steadily since peaking at a record 12.1 million in March 2022 as the U.S. economy roared back from COVID-19 lockdowns.

Read the full memo directing federal agencies to weigh mass layoffs if the government shuts down

By Liz Landers

A letter sent Wednesday indicates that the Trump administration is giving agencies leeway to launch more mass firings through the reduction-in-force mechanism used by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in slashing the federal workforce.

These federal employees were purged by DOGE. Months later, the Trump administration is asking if they want to return

By Joshua Goodman, Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press

The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.