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The USAID shutdown is upending livelihoods for nonprofit workers, farmers and other Americans

  • The shutdown of USAID affects 14,000 agency employees and contractors, leaving American businesses, farms, and nonprofits struggling to pay bills.
  • Hias, a nonprofit aiding refugees, is losing 60% of its funding and has begun furloughs among its 2,000 employees after the funding cutoff.
  • Contractors for USAID report layoffs of nearly 13,000 American workers, with estimates suggesting the total number affected is over 50,000.
  • The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign lab may close in April without additional funding amid USAID's halted operations.
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'This is a mess!' Trump admin chastised by judge shocked at handling of USAID shutdown

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols chastised President Donald Trump's administration, saying that what has happened at USAID has created a "mess." Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney wrote Wednesday that it became clear in court that the administration had no idea what is happening with USAID empl...

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How USAID cuts hurt American farmers : The Indicator from Planet Money

The ties between U.S. foreign aid and American agriculture run deep — or at least used to. The U.S. International Agency for Development, or USAID, is the largest provider of humanitarian food aid in the world. Much of that aid comes from U.S. farmers, whose corn, wheat and rice is sold in bulk to the government for USAID's programs. What happens now if those programs end? Link to Jordan Schermerhorn's research of USAID ties by state.Related epi…

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The USAID shutdown is upending livelihoods for nonprofit workers,

WASHINGTON: There’s the executive in a US supply-chain company whose voice breaks while facing the next round of calls telling employees they no longer have jobs. And a farmer in Missouri who grew up knowing that a world with more hungry people is a world that’s more dangerous. And a Maryland-based philanthropy, founded by Jews who fled pogroms in Eastern Europe, is shutting down much of its more than 120-year-old mission.

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USAID shutdown is upending livelihoods for non-profit workers, farmers and other Americans

About 4,000 agency employees and foreign contractors, as well as hundreds of thousands of people receiving aid abroad say the cutoff of U.S. money they are owed has left them struggling to pay workers and cover bills

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The USAID shutdown is upending livelihoods for nonprofit workers, farmers and other Americans

The Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development is hurting a variety of U.S. companies, nonprofits and farms. They say the cutoff of U.S. money they are

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US companies, nonprofits and farms among those impacted by USAID shutdown

USAID Stop-Work, a group tracking the impact, says USAID contractors have reported that they laid off nearly 13,000 American workers.

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