It's a good map to tell me the relative impact of the shutdown for each state but it doesn't tell me the total number of affected federal workers in each state. I'm having hard time calculating the total number of affected workers in each state. "Number of federal workers at agencies affected by the shutdown per 10,000 workers." I'm confused by this sentence which means that I don't know how to interpret the map. If I'm reading the map correctly, Montana has 157 affected federal workers per 10,000 total workers. This allows me to make a relative comparison between states but doesn't tell me the actual number of affected Federal workers in each Montana. If I knew the total number of workers in Montana I could calculate the total number of affected Federal workers. For example, If I told you that my local gas station sells gas at $3.00 per gallon you would have no way of determining how much money I spent unless I told you the number of gallons of gas that I purchase. Please let me know if I'm missing something very obvious here such as the purpose of the map is to illustrate the relative impacts only.

Thanks NYT for maps highlighting the number of federal employees per 10,000 capita data. Even more interesting how "Red States" with two Republican senators are recipients of major Federal government spending. So, to all of you Federal employees in those states with two Republican senators, the way you get even with Donald Trump and is criminal conduct is that each and every one of you will now become an implant to observe and report on the incompetence and criminal conduct of Trump Cabinet secretaries and agency appointees. All of you will get revenge by reporting the criminal acts to the press.

Their work privilege should not be suspended for political reasons. They need to seek their fair treatment in the labor court.

I work for a federal agency and this map does not reflect the number of people in Iowa that work for my agency and others that are affected by the shut-down.

It looks like the brunt of the shutdown outside of DC is being felt in western states that supported Trump. Can someone please show this graphic to the president? Since he only thinks he represents his own voters, he might rethink the shut-down.

Wouldn't you just love it if Trump threatened to resign if he didn't get his wall? Exactly who did the man blame when the GOP controlled BOTH houses of congress for the first two years of his presidency?

The ripple effects are cripple effects for many; direct contractors, those whose livelihoods depend on spending by employees and contractors etc. Economists tell us that money turns over three times in spending in the economy so this has major and unacknowledged consequences. It may be that the larger view of the crisis is that the president can extort whatever he wants should he be able to emasculate Congress, then it is a wrecked system of governance, and retirees, workers across the spectrum, banks (gasp..no more bailouts?), defense and so much more will be the collateral damage done by brain-damaged Donald. When a President, any President cannot see beyond his/her campaign rhetoric and put the nation on the rocks to satisfy a talk show host, it is a "high crime", well past misdemeanor stage of impeachment consideration.

States like Kansas and Washington, with high concentrations of tech and aerospace companies that rely heavily upon government contracts are probably experiencing MANY people out of work, although that is not reflected in this article. By "privatizing" services such as security, prison and research and development, politicians over the decades have made government appear to be smaller - but the truth is those private contractors are completely reliant on government funding -- and way more than 800,000 workers are affected by the shutdown.

I'm a subcontractor for a firm that has federal and non-federal contracts. But federal agencies are not paying the firm for work already performed, so non-federal income has to be used to cover all basic expenses like rent and utilities, and to pay our most vulnerable subcontractors. That means I'm not being paid for work I did prior to the shutdown -- and I don't even work on the federal contracts. I am lucky that I can afford to wait until the feds start paying their bills again and the cash squeeze eases up, but the ripple effect of this shutdown is staggering.

I'm a contractor for a federal agency (USDA). I actually work within the agency, with federal workers as my managers. Of course I'm out of work and I'm not going to receive back pay as all of them inevitably are. I am out looking for a job because this is going to get bad. I have yet to read an article that acknowledges people like me. Is it too hard to count us? I can't believe all of the contractors are completely shut down, and surely there are too many of them to figure out the numbers and perhaps they have multi-year contracts that allow them to continue. I don't know. But there are more than federal workers who have been thrown out of work.