Recently, the Herald-Leader published an editorial with the headline, “If Bevin thinks sexual harassment is inexcusable, why does this guy still have a job at Kentucky prison?” The Herald-Leader knows ...

Columbus City Council members voted 7-0 to approve a resolution that rejects the establishment of a merit system for the city’s police and fire departments. Resolutions only have to be voted on once ...

The Board of Public Works and Safety on Tuesday gave approval for the city’s police and fire departments to send out a notice to active members regarding a pending vote in order to determine whether ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a five-part series from the National Academy of Public Administration looking at the challenges and urgency of modernizing the civil service. Find the Academy’s ...

As recently as this March, Zakaria focused CNN airtime on what the United States could learn from its northern neighbor. He noted that Donald Trump applauded Canada’s immigration program in the ...

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President Trump’s proposal to shift towards a “merit-based” immigration system would upend an approach that has existed for half a century. Since the 1960s, the United States’ immigration system has ...

Pasadena Unified has dismantled its four-decade-old, so-called merit-based personnel system — a playbook meant to keep nepotism from hiring and promotion decisions. But does that mean cronies will ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - An informative meeting and a chance for public comment regarding a hasty effort to change the ways in which South Bend police officers are disciplined if they make mistakes ...

Steve Inskeep talks to Mark Krikorian, a conservative immigration activist who advocates for stricter immigration limits and a merit-based immigration system. Let's track President Trump's shifting ...

Ben L. Erdreich served as chairman of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board from 1993 to 2000. A Democrat, he was a member of the U.S. House, representing Alabama, from 1983 to 1993. Steven L. Katz ...

Reporting from Washington — President Trump wants to reform the immigration system to favor foreigners who have special skills that would contribute to the U.S. economy, breaking from a decades-long ...