The obligatory showing of the red briefcase containing budget details is as exciting as it gets in the U.K.
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While a single shutdown is unlikely to push a government worker to quit, the cumulative effect of multiple shutdowns can lead to low worker morale and employee retention problems.
Past as prologue: October could bring yet another government shutdown.
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Shutting down the government won’t help reduce the deficit. Here’s what would.
The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have widened the partisan divide between Democrats and Republicans on health care.
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States led by Republican governors generally had higher COVID-19 case and death rates in 2020.
Most U.S. pandemic policies are not helping those most vulnerable to dying from both COVID-19 and pandemic-driven unemployment, including Blacks, the less educated and the poor.
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Most pandemic policies have benefited those already best off in US society and ignored people for whom neither mass shutdowns nor reopening offer relief.
A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past boarded up shop windows in Vancouver on March 25, 2020.
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Canadians are living under a states of emergency, coping with a limping economy and social distancing as well as the stress of the pandemic itself. Many might be asking: when will it end?
Father and child stand outside closed National Air and Space Museum in Washington, Jan. 2, 2019.
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The government shutdown provided a short-term version of what some activists have long wanted: A government small enough so that you could ‘drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.’
Donald Trump prepares to give the 2018 US State of the Union address.
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Trump is not the first US president to talk about border security, but he is the only one to make it an “urgent national crisis”. Here is a handy deconstruction of President Trump’s rhetorical strategy.
Wall Street traders aren’t the only ones who rely on government economic data.
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Two labor negotiation experts explain how a 2015 dispute that seemed intractable got resolved, with important lessons for the partial government shutdown.
Aaron Rowe of the Architect of the Capitol’s office, which is not affected by the partial government shutdown, shovels snow left by a winter storm on the U.S. Capitol’s plaza.
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The shutdown poses a very real threat to preparedness for future emergencies, such as natural disasters and disease outbreaks.
U.S. federal government employees, contract workers and other demonstrators march during a ‘Rally to End the Shutdown’ in D.C. on Jan. 10.
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Setting aside personal hardships for workers who don’t see a paycheck during the shutdown, the research enterprise itself loses out, too. And unlike back pay, this lost time can never be made up.
Families are feeling the pinch of the government shutdown.
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The government has been partially closed since Dec. 22, making it the second-longest shutdown on record. A finance professor who studied the 2013 shutdown explains the economic impact.