(Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)Annie Ha spends hours waiting for customers in her empty nail salon. This is Camp Springs, Md., an unincorporated town of 20,000 just outside the nation’s capital that has one of the largest concentrations of low-wage federal workers in the D.C. region. That’s less than half the $104,275 median for federal workers in all of Maryland and well below the median income for all workers — both public and private — in the state. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)Managers and owners of a hair-braiding shop, a real estate business, a 7-Eleven and other stores echoed the frustration. Harmon, who runs his own personal training company in Camp Springs, said he has offered to provide some of his customers who are federal workers, or whose parents are federal workers, with free sessions.

Source: Washington Post January 20, 2019 20:17 UTC