{"id":40401,"date":"2013-10-06T16:48:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T16:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_morale_plummets_for_federal_workers_facing_unending_furlough\/"},"modified":"2013-10-06T16:48:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T16:48:05","slug":"npr_morale_plummets_for_federal_workers_facing_unending_furlough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40401","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Morale Plummets For Federal Workers Facing Unending Furlough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The work that Shaun O&#8217;Connell does is required by law, yet now he&#8217;s sidelined by the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connell reviews disability claims for the Social Security Administration in New York, checking that no one&#8217;s gaming the system, while ensuring people with legitimate medical problems are compensated properly.<\/p>\n<p>Billions of dollars are at stake with this kind of work, yet O&#8217;Connell is considered a nonessential employee for purposes of the partial government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you stick with the semantics of essential and nonessential, you could easily be offended,&#8221; says O&#8217;Connell, who has worked for Social Security for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/10\/05\/229301173\/morale-plummets-for-federal-workers-facing-unending-furlough\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The work that Shaun O&#8217;Connell does is required by law, yet now he&#8217;s sidelined by the government shutdown. O&#8217;Connell reviews disability claims for the Social Security Administration in New York, checking that no one&#8217;s gaming the system, while ensuring people<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40401\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,175,670,149,168,617,597,616,151,667,618,669,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-budget","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-house-of-representatives","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}