Government’s work stacking up a week into shutdown

Published October 7, 2013 12:32pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — Across America the government’s work is piling up, and it’s not just paperwork. It’s old tires and red Solo cups littering a stretch of river in Nebraska. Food poisoning microbes awaiting analysis in Atlanta. The charred wreckage of a plane in California, preserved in case safety investigators return.

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