How the government shutdown will affect federal workers
Hundreds of thousands will be furloughed, and the Trump administration is threatening to fire others. Plus, a conversation with the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that about 750,000 federal employees could be furloughed during the shutdown. Some federal workers deemed essential will work without pay. And others could be fired. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzer has the details.
Marketplace's Sabri Ben-Achour sits down with the CEO and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to discuss tariffs, a cooling labor market and how the central bank is affected by a government shutdown. This is the first part of that conversation.
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