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Unpaid bills, leftovers, downtime: Workers cope in shutdown
workers shutdown
Furloughed federal worker Amanda Wagner works on a photo album at a coffee shop in Silver Spring, Md., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. Unable to go to work, she spent the morning at the coffee shop offering free drinks to furloughed federal works. (AP Photo/Michael Kunzelman)
PHILADELPHIA — As the government's partial shutdown pushed toward a third week, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are feeling the financial pinch.
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