If elected to serve a second term, Donald Trump says he supports a plan that would give him the authority to fire as many as 50,000 civil servants and replace them with members of his political party ...

Two years after the Attorney General's Office began phasing out New Jersey's spoils system for hiring outside counsel and adopted a merit-based rubric, Gov. Jon Corzine has made it official. Two years ...

Editor: A recent letter, “Bill would preserve workforce integrity” (Aug. 4), supporting the passage of Saving the Civil Service Act demonstrates what has become increasingly rare concern for the merit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then-President Donald Trump standing underneath a portrait of Andrew Jackson in November 2017. Oliver Contreras-Pool/Getty Images) ...