Charlotte Kesl for HuffPost Summer Kerksick, a furloughed government contractor, has stopped getting paychecks during the government shutdown and recently visited her first food bank. AdvertisementBut since the October government shutdown, Kerksick has been furloughed, which means she’s one of the estimated 750,000 federal workers across the United States who are on an indefinite unpaid leave of absence. But the government shutdown ― which is now the longest in U.S. history ― has dragged on longer for more than one month with no end in sight. “Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, so when you’re now at paycheck number two, possibly number three, things get very serious, very quickly,” she said. Support HuffPost Already a member?
