Request for Unemployment Aid to Help Federal Workers Was Denied, D.C. Mayor Says

Governing: The Department of Labor on Thursday denied a request from Washington's mayor to make more federal employees who are working without pay eligible to collect unemployment benefits, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday.

The Labor Department's response to Bowser's request Monday fell on the 27th day of the partial government shutdown, the longest in US history.

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