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For a week now, about 22,000 Minnesota state workers haven't been allowed to report to work. Those workers who were deemed non-essential are still waiting for the governor and legislative leaders to come to a budget agreement, and let them get back to their jobs.

However, the 12,000 government employees who were deemed critical to the state's core functions are still on-duty during the shutdown.

Ben Benson is one of those workers. He is an IT network specialist at the Department of Administration's Material Management Division.

Ben Benson is one employee whose work was ruled critical to the government's core functions. He and 12,000 other state workers are still on-duty during the shutdown.

Essential state worker alone on the job

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