PayPal offers cash advances to government workers hit by shutdown

Silicon Valley tech giant PayPal on Friday said it was committing $25 million to a program offering interest-free cash advances of up to $500 to federal workers impacted by the partial government shutdown, now in a record-breaking fourth week."No matter where you stand on the issues, the fact is that 800,000 of our fellow Americans suddenly find themselves without a paycheck," PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said in a blog post, which included a link to 211.org, which lists resources for government work