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Workers Turn to Food Banks as US Shutdown Continues

Thousands of workers are still without pay as the US shutdown enters its second month.

Hundreds of thousands of US government workers and their families are visiting food banks as they remain unpaid for 32 days. We speak to Kate Maehr, who runs the Greater Chicago Food Depository. How can more women get appointed to the top roles in business? Vivienne Nunis hears from Sue Unerman, author of The Glass Wall. And 大象传媒 reporter Nick Beake tells us how China is keen to invest in Myanmar.
Fergus Nicoll is joined throughout the programme by Nicole Childers, who is Executive Producer at Marketplace on American Public Media and is in Los Angeles, and Jyoti Malhotra, National & Strategic Affairs Editor at The Print, who is in Delhi.

(Picture: A person carries a food bag in Washington DC. Credit: Yasin Ozturk/Getty Images)

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  • Wed 23 Jan 2019 01:06GMT

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