Furloughed workers could include office staff, aircraft and ship maintenance workers, teachers and medical staff.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Public sector workers including teachers, social workers and police support staff marched in protest at government plans to change public sector pension arrangements.

BBC: Striking staff in Northampton pensions march

How do the social workers, the hospital staff, the police, the teachers, the railway workers, the prison and immigration officials -- and yes, the bankers and MPs -- feel about the hypocrisy of a press that so readily dishes out bitter medicine but can never, ever take it?

CNN: Familiar abuse of power as press fights regulation

So this is the story of Beth and Marissa's friends and fellow military spouses, and the chaplains, social workers, teachers, and support staff with whom they crossed paths.

NPR: Waiting and Dreading: Families in War Time

Hundreds of thousands - possibly millions - of teachers, civil servants, health workers, students, banking staff, air traffic controllers, customs officials, weather forecasters, and others - will stop work for 24 hours for a variety of reasons: from pay to public sector reform.

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