INDIANAPOLIS Gleaners Food Bank is working to help federal employees affected by the government shutdown.

About 24,000 Hoosiers are employed by agencies like the TSA, FAA, FBI, Social Security Administration and other government agencies.

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All of them by the end of the month will not get paid and be expected to work, said Fred Glass, the President of Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana.

To help, Gleaners reached out to several organizations to offer food assistance. Of the 350 TSA employees at Indianapolis International Airport, 225 have already signed up for a Gleaners food distribution.

"I was shocked by that, that so many people are living on the edge, paycheck to paycheck, that when they start losing one paycheck, they're prepared to the charitable food," Glass sai

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