Reposted from @kishlb - #JaqiWright and her mother couldn’t get enough of her sister’s #cheesecake. The two of them, relaxing on New Year’s Day, savored two slices each while sipping coffee. “‘You really can sell these,'” Wright recalls her mother saying. “And that’s when I sat up straight,” Wright says. Wright and her sister, #NikkiHoward, are #furloughed #federalemployees who have found themselves without work and a paycheck since the partial #governmentshutdown began Dec. 22. Like some of the 800,000 federal employees and contractors who are without pay during the 19-day shutdown, Wright and Howard — who work for the Justice Department and #FoodandDrugAdministration in #WashingtondC., respectively — are worried about how the lack of pay will impact their finances. So the #Maryland-based sisters decided to follow their mother’s advice. They launched# #TheFurloughCheesecake on #NewYearsDay and are now selling cheesecakes for $29.98 each. “We don’t know when this is going to end. We don’t have a clue,” Howard, the #baker behind the operation, says. “But instead of dwelling on that and feeling the depression that tends to come with these kinds of situations, we’re making a decision to do something else.” - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BtESuLunwbA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1v3qo2p18iy87