Ogden • Before Krystal Kirkpatrick rallied Thursday with fellow furloughed workers for the Internal Revenue Service, she made another stop that is now crucial for her family’s survival: visiting a food pantry.
As she pushed a shopping cart full of free bread, apples, eggs and canned goods to her car on a snowy street, she explained, “Things are getting pretty tight.
“I talked to our mortgage company. They don’t want to work with us. They said I could pay late and get a ding on my credit. Normally with the paycheck coming up, I would pay my mortgage.