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Eight hundred thousand workers. That is the number of government employees and contractors impacted by President Trump’s shutdown of the federal government.

Furloughed federal employees and out-of-work contractors greeted one another Thursday with a sarcastic nickname that, on the 20th day of a partial government shutdown, captured their feeling of powerlessness: “Hello, fellow pawns.”

1. Janus dealt a heavy blow to labor—but public-sector unions didn’t crumble overnight.

A federal employee union sued the Trump administration Monday over the government shutdown, claiming it is illegal for agencies