Roughly 800 Transportation Security Administration officers at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport have been working without pay for more than a month as a partial Department of Homeland Security funding lapse drags on. Officers say household budgets are squeezed so badly that some cannot afford gas or childcare, and several workers have already missed shifts. In response, the airport has launched a donation drive for groceries, hygiene items and small-denomination gas and grocery gift cards to help keep staff afloat.
That figure, about 800 officers, was reported by FOX 10 Phoenix, while the airport confirmed in a press release that some workers’ pay registered as $0.00 on March 13 and asked the public to donate nonperishable food, hygiene supplies and gift…..