janitor at the department of agriculture. she hasn t been paid since the shutdown began, and she is worried that she won t be able to eat. she told the times, i have put a lot of food in the freezer and we are taking it all out. that last fish and the last shrimp and the last chicken is all we re eating now. i m worried about not having food this week. when she was told that president trump suggested that the shutdown could last months or years, she said, oh, my god, we re going to die of hunger. let s discuss now, and ashley stephens is here, a spokeswoman for the professional services council. ashley, good evening. good to have you on. hi, don. glad to be here. this is really awful, when you hear these stories, and there so many of them. tell us what your workers do. what kinds of jobs are they doing, or not doing, as the case may be? right. so, the professional services
through. it helped with my january rent and will have to help with february rent, also. so, for some people affected by the shutdown, it simply comes down to being able to put food on their table. the new york times talked to a janitor at the department of agriculture. she hasn t been paid since the shutdown began, and she is worried that she won t be able to eat. she told the times, i have put a lot of food in the freezer and we are taking it all out. that last fish and the last shrimp and the last chicken is all we re eating now. i m worried about not having food this week. when she was told that president trump suggested that the shutdown could last months or years, she said, oh, my god, we re going to die of hunger. let s discuss now, and ashley stephens is here, a spokeswoman for the professional services
council. ashley, good evening. good to have you on. hi, don. glad to be here. this is really awful, when you hear these stories, and there so many of them. tell us what your workers do. what kinds of jobs are they doing, or not doing, as the case may be? right. so, the professional services counc council, we re the leading trade association representing the government technology and professional services federal tr contractors. we have contractors representing 400 companies. contractors in every state representing every federal agency. as you mentioned, don, you shared the stories of julie and julia. just like the shutdown is impacting them, it is equally hitting federal contractors, but if not a little bit harder so, and that s because, as you mentioned, as government employees ultimately will receive their back pay, contractors, historically, have never received back pay. and that s one thing we re focusing on at pse, is to make sure that contractors who are
monday, august 29th we have a growing list of school districts in maryland that will be closed today because of damage or power outages from irene. anne arundel county.. baltimore city.. baltimore county.. cecil county and charles county schools aae closed. closed. harford county.. howard county.. kent county.. prince george s county and queen anne s county schools are alss closed. 3 3 3 3 3 irene s is no longer a trrpical storm now.. but in her wake are 21 deaths in eeght states.. anne s county. 85-year old anne bell was killed when a ttee fell onnher house. cauuing a chimney to collapse. it happened outside f queenstown. and in newport news, crushed by a tree.. killing him.irene uprooted the tree out of the ground.. and ppanted it on the child s home. hii mother was able to wwsstrapped and crushed by the massive tree trunk. there is also a staggering number of maryland esidents still without power this morning because of the storm. ááadllb numbersáá if you re watching u