Sentences with phrase «furloughed federal government workers»

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While some are blaming that drop on the government shutdown, when federal workers were furloughed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics itself is not.

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers received furlough notices after Congress failed to agree on a continuing resolution (CR) late Monday night to fund the government.

Days after a federal judge blocked his efforts to furlough half the state work force, Gov. David A. Paterson is drafting a plan that would lay off thousands of government workers at the beginning of next year, a move officials say is necessary to help balance the state budget.

The Senate's failure to pass a new stopgap spending measure late Friday triggered a partial government shutdown — the first since October 2013, beginning the shuttering of «non-essential» agencies throughout the government, furloughing federal workers and closing federal facilities.