Hundreds Of Hispanics Furloughed During Government Shutdown

How Hispanics Are Affected By The Shutdown
Dark clouds pass over the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Dark clouds pass over the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) sent out orders just before midnight on Monday to governmental agencies advising them to "execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations", triggering the furlough of some 800,000 federal workers, while over a million more will go to work on Tuesday without pay. Among them were many of the estimated 159,651 Latinos who make up 8.2 percent of the federal government's workers, according to data compiled in a September report on Hispanic employment from the OMB.

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