Word has spread quickly in a small working class city in rural northern Vermont about looming furloughs at its largest employer, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services center.
A sign marks the location of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Vermont Service Center on Tuesday, July 14, 2020, in St. Albans, Vt. USCIS has warned that if it doesn't receive more than a billion dollars in funding by Aug. 3 it will be forced to furlough about two-thirds of its workforce of nearly 19,000 people nationally.
In Vermont, the agency employs about 1,700 workers in several locations and about 1,100 received furlough notices. The news follows layoffs at Northwestern Medical Center, the second-largest employer, and comes as the dairy industry has been struggling for years with low milk prices, said Smith, who is also executive director of the Franklin County Industrial Development Corporation. On top of that, restaurants and shops endured weeks of shutdowns under the governor’s order amid the coronavirus pandemic. The city’s unemployment rate was 2.7% before the pandemic and rose to 11.
“These people have been working hard and it’s pretty sad, the situation,” Spano said, as he took a break from cleaning the restaurant’s entryway. “It’s a big chunk of our community.” Leahy and Montana U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, also a Democrat, sent a letter to federal officials on Tuesday asking them to postpone the furlough plans.
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