Labor

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**FILE** Government workers, supporting union members and activists protest against the across-the-board federal spending cuts called sequestration at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia on March 20, 2013. (Associated Press)

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Job seekers attend a health care job fair on Thursday, March 14, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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Juanita Tudor Lowrey, 86, holds a photo of her father, Civil War veteran Hugh Tudor, on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, in Kearney, Mo. Ms. Lowrey received pension benefits related to her father's Civil War service until she was 18 after her father died when she was 2 years old. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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President Obama announces Thomas E. Perez, his nominee for Labor Secretary, on March 18, 2013, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker recounted his fight to stay in office after a recall challenge sparked by his battle with public employee unions. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Helen Strom of the Brooklyn borough of New York listens to a speaker during the People's Budget Hearing at the Capitol on Feb. 27, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Anti-poverty groups rallied for a raise in the state's minimum wage and increased funding for jobs and human services programs. (Associated Press)

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Al Cardenas (above), chairman of the American Conservative Union, said that former President George W. Bush (top) “inherited a country that quickly faced the wrath of international terrorism and an attack on our own soil and the billions of dollars it cost to wage a fight against that.” (Associated Press)

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Pakistani security officials and rescue workers examine the site of bomb blast inside a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Saturday, March 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)