Editorial: There's a word for forcing people to work for untold weeks without paying them

The longest government shutdown in history is almost certain to extend into its 35th day Friday, denying some 800,000 full-time federal workers their second consecutive paycheck. It's just a partial shutdown - nine out of 15 government departments and dozens of agencies are affected, representing about 44 percent of the federal workforce - but these employees will have endured nearly a month without their main source of income. That's not counting half a million or more