Life as a federal worker is a roller coaster ride, park ranger says

Life as a federal worker is a roller coaster ride, park ranger says

Marinell Chandler is back at work with the National Park Service in Alaska after being laid off in February, offered a university job in March, given a chance to return as a seasonal employee, and then getting rehired full-time as a result of a federal court order. Yet the emotional roller coaster the 33-year-old park ranger has been riding for two months over a job she has cherished for a decade still hasn’t come to a secure halt. A cloud hangs…

The number of federal employees in Puerto Rico laid off since the start of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration in January has increased "little by little," reported the designated secretary of the Department of Labor and Human Resources (DTRH),…

Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts

Shirley Hopkins built careers for herself and countless other Black workers through a federal government job.While working in the National Institutes of Health’s human resources office, she became known as the "recruitment lady." It wasn’t spelled out in her job description, but she made it her personal mission to encourage more Black students in the Washington, D.C., area to apply for the federal agency’s internship and youth employment program…

Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it's destabilized by Trump's job cuts

For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump administration's workforce cuts are now throwing that sense of stability up in the air.

Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it's destabilized by Trump's job cuts - TPR: The Public's Radio

For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump administration's workforce cuts are now throwing that sense of stability up in the air.