American Federation of Government Employees

Donna Rogers hasn’t received a paycheck in weeks. An Army veteran who works at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) office in St. Louis, she’s among…

Federal employees throughout metro St. Louis are feeling the brunt of the partial government shutdown two weeks in, as agencies and departments have…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 6, 2010 - During the 1940s, Flannery O'Connor wrote a deeply dark short story called "A Good…