10 Cities That Will Be Hardest Hit by the Shutdown
Percentage of local wages going to federal workers: 18.5 percent
Washington obviously has the greatest portion of federal workers, since it’s the headquarters of most government offices. George Mason University economists expect a shutdown to cost the Washington region alone an estimated $200 million per day.
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Percentage of local wages going to federal workers: 12.6 percent
Contractors in Maryland received $27 billion in taxpayer business last year. Bethesda is also home to the National Institutes of Health, which is halting its research and accepting no new patients in medical trials.
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Percentage of local wages going to federal workers: 11.8 percent
Virginia received more federal defense money than any other state with major military installations. The world’s largest U.S. naval base is located in Norfolk.
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Percentage of local wages going to federal workers: 11.2 percent
Local economists expect the shutdown to cost the city millions in lost wages. Hawaii, whose economy has been on an upswing for the past several years, has 23,000 civilian federal workers, many of whom work at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard.
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Percentage of local wages going to federal workers: 10.1 percent
Nearly 30,000 employees work at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The base estimates that the shutdown in Ohio would mean lost wages of at least $5 million per day.
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Percentage of local wages going to federal workers: 8.7 percent
The biggest impact here will be at Fort Bliss and William Beaumont Medical Center, where thousands of employees will experience furloughs.
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Percentage of local wages going to federal workers: 8 percent
The Peterson Air Force Base, Fort Carson, and the Air Force Academy planned to furlough several thousand employees because of the shutdown.
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Percentage of local wages going to federal workers: 7.7 percent
Oklahoma houses sizeable offices for the Federal Aviation Administration, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Tinker Air Force Base.
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Percentage of local wages going to federal workers: 7.3 percent
New Mexico is home to Kirtland Air Force Base, Cannon Air Force Base, and Hollomon Air Force Base, which sent several thousand employees home on Tuesday.
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Percentage of local wages going to federal workers: 6.8 percent
Local officials expected furloughs to hit more than 10,000 workers here, the vast majority of whom work for at Edwards Air Force Base.
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