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From Oregon Journalism Project: Oregon’s rural counties are the hardest hit by the federal government shutdown
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From Oregon Journalism Project: Oregon’s rural counties are the hardest hit by the federal government shutdown

  • By Khushboo Rathore, Oregon Journalism Project

FREE NEWS / OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT: Sherman County is the hardest hit; federal employees there make up 14% of the workforce and account for more than a quarter of the county’s total annual wages, according to state figures. Many are employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a branch of the nation’s Department of Defense. 

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MCMC to temporarily furlough some staff

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Mid-Columbia Medical Center (MCMC) will temporarily furlough some employees beginning Sunday, May 3, due to loss of revenue from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a press release issued April 24.

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Nearly 250 laid off at Wash. Hanford nuclear site

  • SHANNON DININNY, Associated Press
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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Pink slips went out Monday to nearly 250 workers and more than 2,500 others were notified that they face furloughs of several weeks at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site, where cleanup is likely to be slowed because of automatic federal budget cuts.

Furlough plans vary widely at government agencies
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Furlough plans vary widely at government agencies

  • SAM HANANEL, Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — Federal workers could face seven days of furloughs at the Housing and Urban Development Department, but Homeland Security personnel might see twice that number. At the Environmental Protection Agency, workers would get four-day holiday weekends with a catch — one day would be a furlough day. Other agencies are avoiding furloughs altogether.