Shutdown Means Workers Furloughed as Death Benefits Halted
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Michelle Young took her usual 25-minute bus ride yesterday morning to be notified that her secretarial job at the U.S. Census Bureau didn’t exist anymore.
When she arrived at the agency’s concrete headquarters in suburban Maryland with son Daveon, 2, in tow, she signed paperwork related to her furlough. And with that, her $700-a-week paycheck was gone until lawmakers on Capitol Hill end the political standoff over the U.S. government’s budget.