Sunday, October 13, 2013

Step by step

The shutdown is affecting more and more of us:
  • Minnesota - 71 nurses who work in a federally funded nutrition program for women, infants and children were furloughed.  (Interestingly, 1,200 employees of the Minnesota National Guard were being recalled to work.)
  • Maine - residents with mental or physical disabilities won’t be able to qualify for Social Security disability benefits.
  • Michigan - is preparing to put as many as 20,000 workers on unpaid leave and eliminate cash and food aid to the poor. 
  • North Carolina - sent 366 employees home and closed its nutrition aid program to tens of thousands of women and children. 
  • Illinois - this week may issue furloughs to hundreds of federally funded employees, including workplace safety inspectors.

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