Child Care: 1 More Way Some Federal Workers Struggle During Shutdown

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January 14th, 2019

The partial government shutdown is affecting hundreds of thousands of workers across the country and their kids, too. Many child care centers inside federal buildings have shuddered.

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At 10 o’clock in the morning, Austin Lanham should be working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center routing satellite communication.

But with the partial federal government shutdown, he’s not working, deadlines are slipping, he’s not getting paid and the preschool his two sons go to is shut down because it’s on NASA’s property. “Now I’m just a full-time stay at home dad,” he says.

That’s the case with many federal child care centers in the Washington D.C. region and with some around the country.

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