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Federal workers caught in quandary over government shutdown
Friday, January 18, 2019
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Thousands of federal employees and their families are applying for unemployment and food stamps to get by as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history drags on with no end in sight. But for some of them, it has been an exercise in confusion and frustration.
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