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With the FAA cutting 10% of flights starting Friday, air traffic controllers are currently unpaid in some of the most stressful jobs in the country.
Five weeks into the government shutdown, controllers across the country, forced to work without pay, are taking second jobs to stay afloat.
Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, said workers have gone too long without paychecks to work safely.
I have to do what I have to do in order to provide for my child,” Jack Criss, an air traffic control specialist at Joint Base Andrews, told MSNBC.