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First-person: Furloughed federal employee in Denver: “I feel expendable this time.”

Joanne Grady, 49, is one of the 380,000 federal workers furloughed by the longest ongoing partial government shutdown in U.S. history. (Another 420,000 are working...

Guest Post: Back pay doesn’t pay the bills due today

I am a patriotic American. I have worked as a federal government public servant for 14 years in three different agencies providing resources and...