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President Barack Obama speaks after shopping at a GAP clothing store in Manhattan during his unannounced visit, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Obama talked about raising the minimum hourly wage standards and applauded the GAP, who earlier in the year announced it was raising minimum wage for its employees.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Barack Obama, with the help of store employee Susan Panariello, shops for sweaters at GAP clothing store in Manhattan during his unannounced visit, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Obama used the visit to talk about raising the minimum hourly wage standards and applauded the GAP, who earlier in the year announced it was raising minimum wage for its employees. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Workers hold a protest on the steps of the state Capitol in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, March 11, 2014, to speak out on issues ranging from increasing the state's minimum wage to supporting public schools. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

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Workers hold a protest on the steps of the state Capitol in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, March 11, 2014, to speak out on issues ranging from increasing the state's minimum wage to supporting public schools. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

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Associated Press "There are some people who have very bad insurance, but they don't know it because they don't understand the fine print. We said, 'You know what, you're right. You should be able to keep the health insurance you have, even if it's not very good. Even if you could get insurance on HealthCare.gov, you should be able to keep it,'" said President Obama.

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FILE -In this Nov. 16, 2011 file photo, Pam Bialecki works on a 2012 Jeep Wrangler at the Chrysler Toledo Assembly complex, in Toledo, Ohio. Chrysler plans to hire up to 1,000 part-time employees to give exhausted full-time workers a break at its Toledo Jeep assembly plant. The extra help will allow the plant to run the Wrangler line every Saturday, which it hasn't been able to do. That's important to Chrysler, which is trying to squeeze even more Wrangler production out of the plant this year after a record year in 2013. (AP Photo/Madalyn Ruggiero, File)

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In this Jan. 1, 2014, file photo, employees Chris Broussard, left, and David Marlow, work behind sales counter inside Medicine Man marijuana retail store, which opened as a legal recreational retail outlet in Denver. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)