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Mountain Mule

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9. My roommate was an independent contractor for FEMA

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Reply #7)

Sun Jan 6, 2019, 04:31 PM

Jan 2019

He was the one who informed me of the plight of at least some independent contractors. Maybe it's different from one agency to the next or maybe it's changed since back in the day when he worked for them.

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