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FILE - This April 22, 2014, file photo shows an employment application form on a table at a job fair in Hudson, N.Y. Middle-age white Americans with limited education are increasingly dying younger, on average, than other middle-age U.S. adults, a trend driven by their dwindling economic opportunities, research by two Princeton University economists has found. The economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, argue in a paper released Thursday, March 23, 2017, that the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with high school degrees or less has triggered broad problems for this group. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Agencies navigating federal hiring challenges for employees with disabilities

Many agencies say the Schedule A hiring authority benefits the federal hiring process, but some agencies still face difficulties and confusion with using it.

Hiring/Retention

NSA women leaders find opportunities to ‘drive change and mission’

Inside the IC

White House presses agencies to use apprenticeships for skills-based hiring

Workforce

How African American federal executives see 2024 landscape

Workforce

Graphic By: Derace Lauderdale

The government’s top role for workforce diversity will soon be vacant. What happens next?

Workforce

Senate committee continues scrutiny of sexual harassment claims against VA DEI office

Federal Newscast

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Importance of meeting customer needs, agency mission earn high scores in 2023 FEVS

Workforce

Agencies moving toward OPM’s long-term goals for DEIA in FEVS

Workforce

CIGIE’s ‘roadmap’ moves DEIA efforts from words into clear actions

Workforce

How diverse are the executives, managers and supervisors working in government?

Workforce

NIH health executive also a diversity champion

Workforce

Federal employee engagement, job satisfaction tick upward in 2023 FEVS survey

OPM’s overall measure of employee engagement increased to 72%, up one percentage point from the year before, and tying the government’s score from 2020…

Workforce

FILE - In this April 1, 2014, file photo, the headquarters for the U.S. Agency for International Development is seen in Washington. The state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted spear-phishing assault on U.S. and foreign government agencies and think tanks using an email marketing account of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Microsoft said, late Thursday, May 27, 2021. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

USAID tightens up its approach to working with overseas religious groups

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) works with commercial contractors and non-profits in countries where it operates. For many years,…

Workforce

OPM’s Underwood aims to help agencies reach next level of DEIA workforce goals

Workforce

Among many DEIA priorities, OPM set a goal of increasing the new DEIA index in the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) six points by fiscal 2026.