01 OCTOBER 2013 - PHOENIX, AZ:   A man waits in line to get into the Social Security Administration offices in Phoenix Tuesday on the first day of the partial shut down of the government. The US government closed most non-essential federal services Tuesday. The shutdown is be the first in the US in 17 years. More than 700,000 federal government workers could be sent home on unpaid leave, with no guarantee of back pay once the deadlock is over.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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