Labor

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** FILE ** J. Russell George is the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration. (Associated Press)

Bangladeshi garment workers who fell ill during their shifts at a sweater factory lie on beds at a hospital on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on June 6, 2013. About 450 garment workers fell ill at the Starlight Sweater Factory near Bangladesh's capital, due to possible water contamination. A building collapse near Dhaka in April killed 1,129 workers, injured others and highlighted the hazardous working conditions in thousands of garment factories in Bangladesh. (Associated Press)

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"Sober minders" are being hired on Wall Street to keep those at the highest positions of power to refrain from their vices. (Associated Press)

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Demonstrators hold signs supporting Edward Snowden in New York's Union Square Park on June 10, 2013. Snowden, who says he worked as a contractor at the National Security Agency and the CIA, gave classified documents to reporters, making public two sweeping U.S. surveillance programs and touching off a national debate on privacy versus security. (Associated Press)

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Bangladeshis gather during a demonstration by garment workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the capital, on Monday, May 27, 2013, to demand better working conditions and an increase in pay. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)