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We're at university together lama links Patricia Jones, 34, left, carries her disabled son Nature Harris, 15, to their walk-up apartment in Newark, N.J. Jones was denied getting a printout that proves Harris' disability to apply for government aid because the shutdown has closed her local social security office. Like millions of other low-income women, Jones relies on the federal Women, Infants and Children program to pay for infant formula _ a program that's now jeopardized by the federal government shutdown. New Jersey and other states say they have enough money to operate the program for another few weeks, but advocates worry what will happen next. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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