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What are the latest developments in the ongoing government shutdown?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. The government shutdown now in its 27th day and congressional leaders say they are no closer to an agreement to end it. NPR's Sam Greenglass has more.
This shutdown is now the second longest in U.S. history, but both Republicans and Democrats see coming impacts that could compel the other side to back down. Democrats like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries think expiring health care subsidies will be harder for Republicans to ignore after November 1st, when open enrollment begins for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans.
Tens of millions of Americans are going to wake up to the reality that their premiums, copays and deductibles are about to explode.
That same day, funding for the food assistance program SNAP is expected to run out. And Republicans are warning of flight cancellations and delays if the shutdown persists through Thanksgiving. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
The president of the largest federal worker union is calling the shutdown an avoidable crisis. American Federation of Government Employees leader Everett Kelly is calling on Congress to end the shutdown by passing a clean continuing resolution. For decades, the federal government collected data on the American high school experience, but that long-running effort came to a halt earlier this year.
APM reporter Carmela Wallinone tells us why.
The government has been running high school longitudinal studies since the early 1970s. Students answer survey questions during school and then repeatedly in later years. Policymakers use that data to help students be successful. Elise Christopher ran these studies for years at the Department of Education.
Every single person in this country who's been educated in the past 50 years has benefited from something that one of these longitudinal surveys has done.
In February, the Trump administration scrapped the high school studies contracts. A Department of Education spokesperson said the agency is reviewing the studies, quote, return on investment for taxpayers. For NPR News, I'm Carmela Wallinone.
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