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People line up at a food pantry at Sacred Heart Community Service on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, in San Jose, Calif. Silicon Valley is entering it’s fifth year of unfettered growth, with among the highest incomes in the U.S. and the largest share of high-growth, high-wage jobs. Those gains have doubled housing costs in the past five years while wages for low and middle skilled workers are stagnant. Homelessness and racial disparities are on the rise. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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A family receives aid at a food pantry at Sacred Heart Community Service on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, in San Jose, Calif. Silicon Valley is entering it’s fifth year of unfettered growth, with among the highest incomes in the U.S. and the largest share of high-growth, high-wage jobs. Those gains have doubled housing costs in the past five years while wages for low and middle skilled workers are stagnant. Homelessness and racial disparities are on the rise. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Two young girls hold hands as their mother sifts through used clothing at Sacred Heart Community Service on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, in San Jose, Calif. Silicon Valley is entering it’s fifth year of unfettered growth, with among the highest incomes in the U.S. and the largest share of high-growth, high-wage jobs. Those gains have doubled housing costs in the past five years while wages for low and middle skilled workers are stagnant. Homelessness and racial disparities are on the rise. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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People line up at the food pantry at Sacred Heart Community Service on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, in San Jose, Calif. Silicon Valley is entering it’s fifth year of unfettered growth, with among the highest incomes in the U.S. and the largest share of high-growth, high-wage jobs. Those gains have doubled housing costs in the past five years while wages for low and middle skilled workers are stagnant. Homelessness and racial disparities are on the rise. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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President Barack Obama talks to the crowd at Central Connecticut State University during a speech Wednesday, March 5, 2014, about raising the minimum wage. (AP Photo/The Hour, Alex von Kleydorff)
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President Barack Obama talks to the crowd at Central Connecticut State University during a speech Wednesday, March 5, 2014, about raising the minimum wage. (AP Photo/The Hour, Alex von Kleydorff)
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This March 1, 2014, photo shows part of the website for HealthCare.gov as photographed in Washington. Warding off the specter of election-year health insurance cancellations, the Obama administration Wednesday announced a two-year extension for individual policies that don't meet requirements of the new health care law. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
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**FILE** President Obama waves before his departure on Air Force One from Bradley Air National Guard Base in East Granby, Conn., on March 5, 2014. Obama, who was heading to Boston, was in Connecticut to talk about increasing the federal minimum wage. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama greets Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick as Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, left, and Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, right, look on after Obama spoke about the minimum wage during an event in Kaiser Hall on the Central Connecticut State University campus in New Britain, Conn., Wednesday, March 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
