Government workers tighten belts, brace for first missing paychecks during shutdown
Tailor Gutierrez, a furloughed worker for the Internal Revenue Service, no longer buys meat. She eats ramen, or white rice and gravy instead. “We’re trying to find things that are cheap, but filling and sort of healthy," the 19-year-old says. Across the country, 800,000 furloughed federal employees, like Gutierrez, and their families are running the numbers, Those paychecks are on hold for federal workers forced on unpaid leave or working without pay because of the partial government shutdown. For most, their last paycheck was Dec. 28. And ...
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