1. December 14

    Next year, the loss of more than 1,090,359 million defense related jobs across the country cause record unemployment in defense-dependent areas like San Diego, Norfolk, Houston, and southern Florida.

  2. December 15

    Next year, 229,000 federal employees lose their jobs. The result? Slower processing times for services like IRS tax refunds and Social Security benefit checks.

  3. December 16

    Without polar orbiting satellites, meteorologists couldn’t accurately predict landfall of hurricanes or tropical storms. In fact, British researchers say that without these satellites, meteorologists would have completely miscalculated the path of Superstorm Sandy. Sequestration would impair our ability to launch replacement satellites going forward.

  4. December 17

    Starting in January, shops close on Main Street as small businesses begin losing 956,181 jobs.

  5. December 18

    NASA cuts risk investments in critical research and development that brought us innovations like artificial heart pumps, GPS car navigation and infrared TV remote controls. NASA has spun off 1,650 new technologies since 1976.

  6. December 19

    Over the course of 2013, the unemployment rate jumps by 1.5%, plunging the U.S. back into recession.

  7. December 20

    Thanks to defense cuts, the U.S. Navy will be at its smallest since World War I, leaving the U.S. unable to project power in critical regions like the Asia-Pacific.

  8. December 21

    FAA furloughs controllers, shutters towers and delays implementing a safer, more efficient NextGen air traffic control system that would have shortened flight times, reduced delays, lowered noise around airports and reduced fuel burn and carbon emissions – saving billions of dollars and expanding economic growth opportunities.

  9. December 22

    Seniors have a harder time seeing a doctor in 2013 because more than 500,00 health workers in the Medicare program are eliminated.

  10. December 23

    Beginning in January, small companies that manufacture innovative, lifesaving technologies for the battlefield will be threatened with closure, depriving our soldiers of critical capabilities.

  11. December 24

    Next year, long holiday travel lines will greet you every day at every airport as TSA is forced to cut inspectors.

  12. December 25

    Dreaming of a white Christmas?

    Starting in 2013, critical weather-prediction satellite programs are cut, and you wake up to a foot of snow from a storm you didn’t even know was coming. Studies have shown that without these programs, forecasters would have missed the boat on the 2010 storm nicknamed Snowmaggedon.

  13. December 26

    Starting in January, reduced federal aid for state and local budgets causes emergency responders like firefighters and police to lose their jobs.

  14. December 27

    In 2013, the USDA would have to cut food inspections. Cases of contamination and food-related illnesses would rise.

  15. December 28

    With no budget to fund the next generation of bombers, Air Force crews continue to fly the same airplanes as their fathers and grandfathers before them.

  16. December 29

    Space industry “clusters” in places like Huntsville, Alabama, that support U.S. space programs are threatened due to budget cuts.

  17. December 30

    With no Shuttle replacment, the United States continues to pay Russia more than $60 million a seat to get American astronauts to the International Space Station.

  18. December 31

    3…2…1… Next year, public spaces like Times Square will be less safe due to smaller Homeland Security and police forces.

  19. January 1

    In 2013, your child’s class size will jump from 18 students to 28 because states do not have money to hire enough teachers.

  20. January 2

    Starting January 2, 2.14 million American jobs will be lost in 2013.