via Wkyc: Stouffer’s is lending a helping hand to government workers affected by the partial government shutdown. In a Facebook post on Friday the company announced it would offer free meals to any worker affected in Northeast Ohio. “Stouffer’s has been a part of the Cleveland community since 1924,” said the company in the post. […]
via Wkyc: Payday will come Friday without any checks for about 800,000 federal employees affected by the government shutdown, forcing workers to scale back spending, cancel trips, apply for unemployment benefits and take out loans to stay afloat. IRS employee Krystle Kirkpatrick and her family, including her two children, ages 6 and 12, aren’t eating […]
With Congress reaching a deal to reopen the federal government, local federal workers are going back to work. At the Celebrezze Federal Building, workers streamed in, obviously pleased to be back, but most following orders not to speak with the media. The Cuyahoga Valley National Scenic Railroad was back on track as the park […]
House Republicans spent Wednesday trying to pull together their own compromise bill to re-open the government and head-off a default, but the votes weren’t there. Democrats are accusing republicans of trying to derail the Senate compromise. Now some local federal workers are fed up with the shutdown. They held a rally in downtown Cleveland to […]