The Federal Aviation Administration began furloughing controllers on Sunday to comply with automatic government spending cuts.

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This has provided the moral justification for increasing class sizes, furloughing teachers, reducing salaries, etc.

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As Monday's deadline drew nigh, federal agencies were preparing for the possibility of furloughing workers.

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After pocketing the money, Compact Power is now furloughing workers before producing a single battery.

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Implementing such suggestions might help the Justice Department avoid furloughing 36, 700 workers at the Bureau of Prisons, among other things.

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The major employer in the region was the State of California, who was in the middle of furloughing existing employees to make ends meet.

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This would force a hiring freeze and the furloughing of permanent staff, as well as delay spring openings of the park to save money on costly snow-ploughing operations.

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The FAA on Sunday began furloughing its air-traffic controllers for one day every 10 work days to meet its required cuts under the sequester, forcing some understaffed control towers to hold aircraft at airports or increase space between airborne planes.

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