council, we re the leading trade association representing the government technology and professional services federal 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 psc, is to make sure that contractors who are not getting paid now will receive back pay after the shutdown ends. all those people that you mentioned, that you that work for you, what do they do? it ranges on from your lower wage workers, you have janitorial staff on up to higher
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
40,000 women, ages 55 through 69, over the course of 19 years. finding that older women who took a multivitamin, b6, folic acid, magnesium, zinc, copper were at slight increased risk of death. 2.4%. dying of things, heart disease and cancer with women who took iron having a 3.9% increased risk of death. up until now, there isn t much benefit or risk seen with multivitamins. many people thought it might help. but probably wouldn t hurt. this raises the question that it might hurt. i think that is a whole different level of understanding that we need to, to comprehend. in other words, people are taking something to improve their health, but it actually might harm their health. reporter: the report follows other studies that found that certain other supplements may be harmful. dietary supplements don t require the same rigorous testing that drugs do. but it is an $11 billion a year business, millions of americans convinced they re beneficial. leading trade association that