Where Federal Workers Aren't Beingness Paid

Trump's authorities shutdown is affecting federal employees across the country. The Washington Post has mapped out precisely how many employees are affected inwards every state.

The WaPo's Where Federal Agents Aren't Getting Paid map reveals that DC has the highest concentration of federal workers. Outside of DC the province alongside the highest percent of federal workers is Alaska, closely followed past times Montana. The WaPo choropleth map shows the disclose of federal employees affected past times the shutdown per 100,000 workers inwards each state.

The 3 authorities agencies alongside the well-nigh workers affected past times the shutdown are Homeland Security, Justice together with Agriculture. In full 411,900 employees inwards these 3 agencies are non existence paid. Overall over 800,000 authorities workers are having to live without pay.


The primary argue why these authorities workers aren't existence paid is the President's demand that American taxpayers pay for his edge wall. Earlier this yr USA Today attempted to reply the query of whether nosotros should build Trump's wall.

USA Today flew & drove along the entire 2,000-mile edge betwixt the US of America together with Mexico. During these journeys they mapped every known slice of the existing edge scrap betwixt the ii countries. You tin strength out persuasion the locations of this existing edge scrap together with every 2nd good persuasion the aerial video USA Today shot during their flying along the edge on their interactive map.

Should nosotros build a wall? Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 2,000-mile search for answers non alone maps the existing edge scrap but every 2nd good explores some of the problems the USA could facial expression upward inwards trying to build Trump's wall betwixt United Mexican States & the USA. The map shows where the existing scrap consists of vehicle barriers, pedestrian fencing, other fencing together with where no fencing currently exists.

Should nosotros Build a Wall is merely 1 purpose of USA Today's particular study The Wall - an in-depth exam of Donald Trump's edge wall. In the residue of the study you lot tin strength out read interviews, head to podcasts together with explore the edge inwards virtual reality.

Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting, has every 2nd good been collecting information on the US-Mexico edge for a disclose of years. They bring spent a long fourth dimension mapping the existing edge scrap using satellite imagery together with authorities PDF maps of the border.

From this information Reveal has discovered that unopen to 700 miles of the 1,954 mile-long U.S.-Mexico edge is already fenced. Trump's novel wall volition thence demand to live at to the lowest degree 1,300 miles long. That's a lot of Chinese steel. You tin strength out explore Reveal's run on their The Wall interactive map. The map shows the electrical current scrap together with shows where it is a 'vehicular' together with where it is a 'pedestrian' fence. The map every 2nd good shows where no scrap currently exists.

You tin strength out teach a proficient feel of the scale of structure needed to build Trump's novel wall inwards a video from the Intercept. The Intercept downloaded together with stitched together 200,000 satellite images to practise a huge strip map of the U.S.-Mexican border. You tin strength out persuasion this strip map inwards Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Border, a brusque video which pans along the whole border.