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The US federal government entered a shutdown at midnight on October 1, leaving as many as 750,000 federal employees furloughed each day. In this edition, we get a sense of how much this shutdown might cost the US economy, and what that would do to the employment picture in the country. Plus, FRANCE 24's Luke Shrago looks back at what happened during the last shutdown, which began in late 2018.
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The US federal government entered a shutdown at midnight on October 1, leaving as many as 750,000 federal employees furloughed each day. In this edition, we get a sense of how much this shutdown might cost the US economy, and what that would do to the employment picture in the country. Plus, FRANCE 24's Luke Shrago looks back at what happened during the last shutdown, which began in late 2018.

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