Fed shutdown could affect thousands here
The specter of a partial government shutdown, which would affect thousands in the St. Louis area, seems likely to hover during much of March while Republicans and Democrats argue over how deeply to cut spending for the rest of this fiscal year, the St. Louis Beacon reports. The last time the federal government shut down – closing parts of various agencies during the holiday season from Dec. 15, 1995, to Jan. 6, 1996, – about 8,500 federal workers in the St. Louis area were furloughed, out of about 28,500 local civilian federal employees at the…
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