to speak. and how does it affect me? it affects me from my paycheck, which is why i got the second job. but there s, in essence around the corner, there s a zombie apocalypse, potentially, and what that is is okay, what happens after the sequestration, the furlough is over and we still don t have a response? then i may lose my job and so, in order for me to prep for that doomsday, if you will, i m looking at going back for deployment. shaina, you work with a different population. kids in brownsville, a very poor neighborhood in new york. what are you seeing from the sequester? what we re seeing is really sort of trying to figure out what we need to do in order to
grinding an unnecessary austerity era, but there are thousands of other americans who do or will have similar stories. another story details 100 examples of current or impending cuts caused by the sequester. everything from housing assistance being slashed in texas to research jobs being cut in durham, north carolina. so the question is, why doesn t washington seem to care about any of them? joining me at the table, heather mcghee, the vice president at the public policy organization, ezra cline, msnbc policy analyst and shaina hewitt and from washington is jeff merriack. jeff, i want to start with you because what i thought was
to speak. and how does it affect me? it affects me from my paycheck, which is why i got the second job. but there s, in essence around the corner, there s a zombie apocalypse, potentially, and what that is is okay, what happens after the sequestration, the furlough is over and we still don t have a response? then i may lose my job and so, in order for me to prep for that doomsday, if you will, i m looking at going back for deployment. shaina, you work with a different population. kids in brownsville, a very poor neighborhood in new york. what are you seeing from the sequester? what we re seeing is really sort of trying to figure out what we need to do in order to have our program still run and serve the community, yet meet these cuts we have to make. you have cuts coming down. we do have cuts coming down. we have to look and see where we
and how does it affect me? it affects me from my paycheck, which is why i got the second job. but there s, in essence around the corner, there s a zombie apocalypse, potentially, and what that is is okay, what happens after the sequestration, the furlough is over and we still don t have a response? then i may lose my job and so, in order for me to prep for that doomsday, if you will, i m looking at going back for deployment. shaina, you work with a different population. kids in brownsville, a very poor neighborhood in new york. what are you seeing from the sequester? what we re seeing is really sort of trying to figure out what we need to do in order to have our program still run and serve the community, yet meet these cuts we have to make. you have cuts coming down. we do have cuts coming down. we have to look and see where we needed to make the cuts, so they
it s a kick in the teeth he is an amazing and upsetting single story about life in the united states during our long, grinding an unnecessary austerity era, but there are thousands of other americans who do or will have similar stories. another story details 100 examples of current or impending cuts caused by the sequester. everything from housing assistance being slashed in texas to research jobs being cut in durham, north carolina. so the question is, why doesn t washington seem to care about any of them? joining me at the table, heather mcghee, the vice president at the public policy organization, ezra cline, msnbc policy analyst and shaina hewitt and from washington is jeff merriack. jeff, i want to start with you because what i thought was