Local employees wait, assistance offered as shutdown continues
Gov Phil Scott directed the commissioner of labor to treat essential and excepted federal employees the same as other furloughed employees for the purposes of unemployment insurance benefit eligibility.
SOUTHERN VERMONT - The federal government has been shut down since December 22, making it the longest government shutdown in United States history. The second-longest shutdown, which went from December 1995 to January 1996, lasted 21 days. On Thursday, the current shutdown stretched into its 34th day, with little end in sight.
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