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kentuck

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2. The multiplier effect of 800,000 federal jobs...

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:42 AM

Jan 2019

..Each worker probably has an average family of three or four? Those are part of the suffering from the shutdown also.

And as foodstamps might have a multiplier effect of 5-7 times in the economy, many millions more are affected by lack of spending by the federal employees.

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A monster who is inflicting suffering and hardship on over one million people [View all] malaise Jan 2019 OP

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