U.S.
federal workers are joining queues for emergency food aid as the shutdown bites hard.
It's hard when you don't know if your next meal is going to be not there.
But will Congress cut a deal?
They're making life decisions that they shouldn't have to make.
Let's open the government up.
Let's pay these people.
They deserve a paycheck.
This is World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
Yesterday, as the shutdown approaches a record second month,
we're measuring the economic pain from the food queues to the airports.
And we're in India where women seemingly hold the key both in the ballot box and on the cricket field.
That's to come, but first let's go to the US.
Where the government's been shut down for over a month now,
and if it carries on past this Wednesday, the shutdown will become the longest in US history.
As a result, federal workers are going without pay, and many small businesses,
which are dependent on government contracts,
say that they too are on the brink with food aid running dry.
Here's Abigail Smith, she's a school bus driver at a food bank in Detroit.
It's hard when you don't know if your next meal is going to be, you know, not there.