CORE, the anti-Sellafield group, says he sympathises with people who might lose their jobs when reprocessing ends.

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Unlike Americans who are still dependent on income from employment, retirees are not reluctant to spend for fear that they might lose their jobs.

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Employees at La Tribune do not want Mr Arnault, who owns the paper, to sell it, for fear that they might lose their jobs.

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And it's not just the impact of not extending it would be bad enough for those people whose jobs would be threatened, who might lose their jobs because of it, it would certainly be bad enough for the companies that depend on it.

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But it is difficult to inspire Bureau of Labor Statistics employees, for example, to rally around the fact that under sequestration they won't likely lose their jobs, but they might have to stop collecting data on one specific type of job loss.

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"Almost everyone is affected by it, and there might be a fear that they're going to lose their house or that their parents are going to lose their jobs, " he said.

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