WASHINGTON — No city experiences a shutdown quite like Washington. The District of Columbia alone — population 700,000 — contains more than 102,000 jobs in agencies that are now without appropriations funding. The reason: desperate parents searching for something to occupy their kids in a city where more than a dozen free museums and the zoo have been shuttered. “It happens every time,” laughed BloomBars founder John Chambers, who recalls an identical spike during the 16-day 2013 shutdown. Now everybody’s talking like this could go for months.”One of the more random side-effects of shutdown: the closure of the marriage bureau.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 15, 2019 09:45 UTC