800,000 out of work as US government shuts down
CNBC.com
Tuesday, 1 Oct 2013
Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama’s health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending most nonessential federal programs and services.
The shutdown, the first since the winter of 1995-96, closed national parks, museums along the Washington Mall and the U.S. Capitol visitors center. Agencies like NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency will be all but shuttered. People classified as essential government employees—such as air traffic controllers, Border Patrol agents and most food inspectors—will continue to work.
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