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joined those ranks of people having to take part-time jobs instead of full-time jobs for what we call economic reasons. they wanted full-time jobs. a lot of those were contractors that weren t paid and furloughed workers that weren t paid. and so some of the gains that we saw were actually these people taking part-time jobs to offset what they were losing elsewhere. so there is a little bit of double counting in there. we also saw an increase in the unemployment rate for government workers. that picked up a bit. and for workers that were on temporary unemployment, 175,000 of the 340,000 workers that were furloughed in washington as a result of the shutdown. that s really interesting, though, that so many workers the good news is in a good economy, workers who were living paycheck to paycheck and having such a desperate time were able to get offsetting jobs to supplement their income even when they weren t getting paid. the bad news is that s what they had to do. diane, let me ask y

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