Who are the federal workers affected by the shutdown? 5 questions answered
- Written by Nevbahar Ertas, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham
The current government shutdown is now the longest in American history, affecting about 800,000 federal employees out of 1.8 million full-time civil servants, not counting military personnel and postal workers.
Of those, about 380,000 have been furloughed, meaning that they cannot work or get paid. The rest, whose positions are categorized as...
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