federal workforce

The Supreme Court debates on a precedent that has protected the civil service from the executive branch for over 90 years. The Ford School's Don Moynihan calls the Trump administration's dismantling of the federal workforce an assault on civil servic...

Don Moynihan, a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, said the biggest impact of this week's exodus will be the brain drain of so many experienced civil servants, a loss of talent he says will be hard to reverse...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order that establishes a new classification of federal workers in policy-related roles who are not career civil servants called “Schedule G.”  A White House fact sheet said, that “creating Schedule G facilit...

Ford School Professor Don Moynihan, an expert in the inner workings of the federal government and how government programs affect the public, was widely sought-after in the first days of the Trump administration, as it laid out its plans to drasticall...

Donald Moynihan joined the Ford School this year as the next J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy. His research seeks to improve how government works by studying the administrative burdens people encounter in government, and he c...

By Daniel Rivkin Checking in on the federal civilian workforce"Big government” has been a target for some conservative politicians for decades. That complaint shifted in tenor and action when the Trump administration took office. The federal civilian...