These are the impacts of the shutdown
Welcome to the 6th day of the government shutdown. These are the impacts of the shutdown. I have a friend who was recently furloughed. When she went to file unemployment as directed by her agency she was told her salary information was not in the system. It would have to be entered by an employee of her agency, who had probably been furloughed. On top of that her husband had just moved to take a new job and she is trying to sell her house so she can move and be with him. So her transfer within her agency is delayed by furlough and if she is unlucky enough to miss a mortgage payment the house sale will fail.
These are the impacts of the shutdown. Fifty-three percent of all infants born in the U.S. rely on WIC, according to the National WIC Association and participants in some states have already faced the reality of going without the services. (Read more:  ). Cancer patients are not being accepted into clinical trials that might save their lives. (Read more:  )  Large and small the ripple effects are flowing out from Congress.  These are the impacts of the shutdown.
Call your representative and tell them to pass a budget.  It’s their job. This is exactly how government, big or small doesn’t work.  I would but I live in DC and don’t have any voting representation.
