By Marc Fisher Danielle Paquette and Annie Gowen, The Washington Post Fri., Jan. 18, 2019 WASHINGTON—The pantry was looking awfully empty, but now there will be mac and cheese, followed by more mac and cheese, and then maybe on the next day, how about maybe just a little mac and cheese? Because it’s free, the latest giveaway for federal workers who are not being paid for their work, and because, in Shawanda Hardy’s house, there’s a son who’s in middle school and getting taller every hour or so, and the rent went up $50 last month, and even if the government says you should ask your landlord to let things slide for a while, that’s not really how life works, is it? “God is going to see us through,” said Hardy, a single mother In Prince George’s County, Maryland, who works as an assistant to the head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Except she’s not working now, as the politicians in Washington, … [Read more...] about Free mac and cheese, clean closets, empty bank accounts are part of life during U.S. government shutdown