Free Republic 4th Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $28,188
34%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 34%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: 02thepartypal

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • After a month of the shutdown, workers face mounting bills, car repossessions

    11/02/2025 11:38:34 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 50 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | 11/02/2025 6:00 a.m. EDT | Hannah Natanson , Joe Heim and Meryl Kornfield
    Finances are becoming dire for the more than 750,000 government workers who have been going without pay for a full month.The government has been closed for a full month — and federal workers who have missed two paychecks are now using credit cards to pay their bills, visiting food pantries to stock their kitchens and reviewing their bank accounts, plotting exactly how long they can manage without a salary. The answer is not much longer for Cynthia Brown, a Government Publishing Office staffer who has been working without pay. The 53-year-old said she is barely eating, subsisting on coffee and...