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  • Furloughed mom faces choice of buying insulin or making mortgage payment

    01/15/2019 12:57:37 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 116 replies
    CBS "News" ^ | January 14, 2019 | by Chip Reid (D-CBS)
    Lynette Gabourel has been a federal employee for 38 years, including 10 years in the Navy. She said she has always been committed service. But now she's stuck, having been furloughed from her job at the International Trade Commission amid the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. A single mother of three grown children, two of whom live with her, Gabourel is worried about paying her mortgage and her diabetes medications. "For this month, I'm good," she said. But if her situation continues into February, she said she's going to have to make a choice between insulin and her mortgage...