Kenya may not feel the impact of the school shutdown right away but the longer the students are away from class, the further behind their privileged peers they will fall AND the wider the gap between Kenya's elite and non-elites will grow.
US Airways cut fares today to begin filling its planes with passengers after the shutdown threat drove away customers.
With a possible government shutdown just hours away, new national polls find bad news for Congressional Republicans: they are rated more negatively than President Obama in handling budget negotiations, and more Americans would hold them responsible if a shutdown occurs.
General Motors, the nation's largest automaker, acknowledged that the shutdown was chipping away at the consumer confidence that automakers depend on to sell vehicles, even if it was still too early to gauge the full impact of the fiscal standoff.
Some in the state, too, were considering a less tangible cost: how would memories of the shutdown (people turned away at state parks and politicians going days without talking to one another) affect the state's image of lovely lakes and relatively efficient government?
Luckily, he pointed out, the shutdown is two years away, offering officials time to plan.
Seven months out, the concerns over the L train shutdown have not gone away.
There didn't seem to be serious negotiations Tuesday — instead, the G.O.P. wondered if it could use micro-appropriations to chase away bad shutdown headlines.
And even an hour and a half north from the city, another state away, the shutdown is being taken up as a dare for New York to do more.
Elected in 2009, the young, two-term councilman has had to deal with the impacts of hyper-development, rapid socioeconomic change, and now, a shutdown that will take away the northern sector of his district's lifeline, stranding his constituents for 15 months straight.
