Labor

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Job seekers line up at the 10th annual Skid Row Career Fair held at the Los Angeles Mission downtown Los Angeles Thursday, June 2, 2011. Employers hired only 54,000 new workers in May, the fewest in eight months, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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Job seekers wait in line at a job fair in Southfield, Mich., on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, though the number of applications remains above levels consistent with a healthy economy. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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Employees go about their business in Boeing Co.'s $750 million final assembly plant in North Charleston, S.C., on Friday. The company's new 787 jetliner assembly plant is at the center of a National Labor Relations Board dispute. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Maryland coach Randy Edsall said he's comfortable going into the fall with two quarterbacks. He inherited five scholarship QBs when he was hired in January.

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Crystal Johnson (right), a supporter of the health care overhaul, argues with a protester outside the courthouse. Wednesday's nearly 2 1/2-hour hearing is the third time an appeals court has heard a case on the issue.

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Art restorer Andrea Morse, of Los Angeles, was hired by the city of Encinitas, Calif., to test ways to remove the mosaic of the Virgin of Guadalupe riding a surfboard without damaging it. (Associated Press)

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Art restorer Jessi Taylor, of Los Angeles, weas hired by the city of Encinitas, Calif., to test ways to remove the mosaic of the Virgin of Guadalupe riding a surfboard without damaging it. The unauthorized glass and stone mosaic was created in April under a railroad bridge by artists disguised as construction workers. (Associated Press)

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Betsy Burgess of Flowery Branch, Ga., protests President Obama's health care reform plan outside the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on June 8, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times Eric Schmitt told a Senate panel Tuesday, “I cannot say that even once my degree has opened any doors of employment for me,” but Kaplan said, “The experience of other students in his class was decidedly different. Of the others ... 13 of 16 [found a job].”

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An employee of the Werder Frucht company throws away tomatoes in Werder, Germany, on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. (AP Photo/dapd, Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert)

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Associated Press MIT economics professor Peter A. Diamond said critics had failed to recognize the value of his expertise on the causes of unemployment in blocking his bid for a seat on the Federal Reserve board.

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Workers fill sandbags at Dakota Valley High School on Saturday, June 4, 2011, in McCook Lake, S.D. (AP Photo/The Sioux City Journal, Jim Lee)

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio listens on Capitol Hill on June 3, 2011, during a Republican news conference to respond to the May unemployment report. (Associated Press)

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President Obama addresses workers on June 3, 2011, after his tour of Chrysler Group’s Toledo Supplier Park in Toledo, Ohio. (Associated Press)

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Job seekers in Los Angeles line up at the 10th annual Skid Row Career Fair, held at the downtown Los Angeles Mission on June 2, 2011. Employers hired only 54,000 new workers in May, the fewest in eight months, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this April 6, 2011, photo, job seekers fill in applications as others in the rear talk to prospective employers, at a job fair in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, April 6, 2011. The labor force — those who have a job or are looking for one — is getting smaller, even though the economy is growing and steadily adding jobs. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)