US shutdown: `It`s scary, I don`t know how long we`ll last`
(WorldNews Canada)

Mechelle, 26, was working two jobs before she become a security officer at Atlanta Airport last summer. With no family nearby, Mechelle has become the sole provider for her mother, a brain tumour survivor whose epilepsy and glaucoma has left her unable to work. `I thought that having a government job would provide me better opportunities and more security,` says Mechelle. `It ended up being the total opposite.` Despite the prospect of no pay, Mechelle is still required to work. So are all 57,000 employees of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). But with no savings, the commute to work is eating into the little money she has to pay for bills and for the medication that`s keeping...