With the government in shutdown, a large number of federal employees have found themselves either on unpaid leave or working without pay. This is the effect the shutdown would have if the same number of people were laid off from American industries and companies.

The 800,000 federal employees furloughed or working without pay is more than …

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… the 748,000 people employed by the mining and oil extraction industries in the United States. (And it’s 16 times the size of the entire coal mining industry.)

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It’s also more than the 640,000 people employed by the entire textiles and clothing manufacturing industry.

It’s more than double the number of people who work for Target …

… and more than four times the number of people who work at General Motors.

The Treasury department furloughed roughly 72,400 workers. That is nearly three times the number of people who work at Facebook.

The Department of the Interior furloughed about 56,000 employees, which is more than the nearly 50,000 people who work at Chevron worldwide …

… and more than 10 times the number of people who work at Netflix.

The Department of Agriculture furloughed about 44,000 employees. That’s more than the number of people who work for Goldman Sachs …

… and nearly double the number of people who work at Alaska Air.

[A look at some of the government functions that have been affected by the shutdown.]