Georgia's 74K Federal Workers Facing Government Shutdown

Press release from the issuing company

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Obama administration officials provided details Wednesday about what a government shutdown would mean -- a growing possibility since no agreement has been reached on funding federal operations beyond Friday.

About 800,000 federal workers would no longer be on the job, and the impact would be great in Georgia, which already has an unemployment rate of 10.2 percent.

Read more: Atlanta Business Chronicle