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With Democrats and Republicans deadlocked over passing a spending plan that would reopen federal agencies, millions of Americans are feeling economic pain that could soon grow worse.

A US federal data blackout deepened Thursday as a government shutdown halted the release of third quarter GDP figures, forcing policymakers, financial institutions and business owners to continue flying blind.

Without an extension, those expanded subsidies — which currently help Americans earning more than 400% of the federal poverty level afford marketplace coverage — would lapse.

There are alternatives for your wife and your kids: CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, a joint federal and state program for children in low-income families who don’t qualify for Medicaid, is one such option.

In one instance, Henwood said that a homeless woman secured a federal housing voucher that pays most of the rent to private landlords.