SPOKANE, Wash. — A pause in federal funding is leaving some senior citizens jobless and nonprofits without the volunteers they depend on.
Five regular employees are missing from the Salvation Army thrift store on Division. They’ve been furloughed while the U.S. Department of Labor put funds for the Senior Community Service Employment Program on pause.
This program pays low-income seniors minimum wage to work at part-time at local nonprofits for up to four years…