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Feb 28, 2025

Feeling the economic shockwaves of government layoffs

While USAID workers in Washington, D.C. are packing up their belongings for a second day, the ripple effects of federal job cuts have wider reaches.

Terminated USAID employees collect their personal items on Feb. 27. — Terminated USAID employees collect their personal items on Feb. 27.
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Segments From This Episode

How USAID cuts are impacting the personal economy of one Oklahoma contractor
by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
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Patricia Gross, 47, has worked as an independent government contractor with various nonprofits since 2018. Those nonprofits are now out of work, and so is Gross.
How much impact could a 24-hour “economic blackout” have?
by Mitchell Hartman
David Dee Delgado/Getty Images
An activist group, The People’s Union USA, is calling for a complete boycott of consumer spending in the U.S. on Feb. 28.
Why are tech companies investing in quantum computing?
by Daniel Ackerman
Courtesy Amazon
Quantum computers could speed up some computing tasks by orders of magnitude — but they’re still in early stages.

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Feeling the economic shockwaves of government layoffs