2) The workers most likely belong to a Credit Union. They can get a low interest signature loan from their Credit Union and pay it back when the shutdown ends and the workers receive their back pay.
There, wasn't that easy?
Complaining for the media is easier.
Exactly. I was working at the VA in 1995 during the Clinton/Gingrich shutdown and our local VA Hospital Employee Credit Union offered ZERO interest payday loans to us. We also had to work w/o getting paid on payday, so we just took our paystubs down and they gave us a loan equal to our take home pay. As long as we paid off our payday loans within 90 days we didn’t pay interest. I paid mine off the moment we got our regular paychecks again.
I’m sure this option is available today to most of these Federal Workers NOT getting paid today. I heard Navy Federal Crecit Union is offering low/zero interest payday loans to Fed Workers. They’ve got quick, easy options to get their money to tide them over till this ends!
There’s a neighborhood in Cedar Rapids IA called “Time Check” from the days when the railroads did exactly that when cash was tight. Paychecks were post-dated but families could cash them at local banks who would delay the companies obligation.