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** FILE ** In this Oct. 21, 2010, file photo, jobseekers meet potential employers recruiting during a job fair in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
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William Daley speaks in Tallahassee, Fla., on Nov. 10, 2000. President Obama is hiring Mr. Daley to be his chief of staff, it was revealed Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Mark Foley, File)
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Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia discusses the vote to repeal the health care law on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. "The repeal bill is going to be a very straightforward document. It is going to reflect what I think most people inside the Beltway and outside the Beltway understand about the health care bill that was passed — it is a job-killing health care bill that spends money we don't have," he said. (Associated Press)
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Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, despite hands-on leadership in Afghanistan, lost his job in June after unflattering remarks about administration officials appeared in Rolling Stone magazine. (Associated Press)
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Frank Wallace, unemployed since May of 2009, holds a sign during a rally in June organized by the Philadelphia Unemployment Project. (Associated Press)
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Frank Wallace, who has been unemployed since May of 2009, holds a sign during a rally organized by the Philadelphia Unemployment Project, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. Postal Service employees Sandy Platz (center) and Mariela Rendon (left) share a laugh over the drawing of a reindeer decorated with bandages as they sort letters addressed to Santa Claus in Santa Ana, Calif.
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In this Oct. 28, 2010 photo, model Natasha Smahlei works at the Caitlin Raymond International Registry exhibit during the New England Business Expo in Worcester, Mass. Models were hired by UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester to draw potential bone marrow donors for the bone marrow registry. Officials are investigating why the lab over-billed insurance companies and whether samples were taken from people who didn't qualify. (AP Photo/The Telegram & Gazette, Paul Kapteyn)
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BLOOMBERG "This compromise was to help people who were drowning," said Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., defending the compromise President Obama made with congressional Republicans to extend Bush-era tax cuts. The bill also included an extension of unemployment benefits to millions of Americans.
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Firefighters sift through the still-smoldering Bed and Breakfast Pension House in Tuguegarao city in Cagayan province in the northern Philippines after a fire rapidly swept through the budget hotel early Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. The blaze killed 15 people, nine of whom were nursing students in town to take a licensing exam, officials said. (AP Photo)
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Unemployed workers fill out online resumes at the Maricopa County Workforce Connections job fair on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Unemployed workers fill out online resumes at the Maricopa County Workforce Connections job fair on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II has assumed a high profile in leading a legal challenge of the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law. (Associated Press)
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Protesting Bangladeshi garments workers burn tires and furniture to block traffic, at Chittagong, 135 miles southeast of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010. Garment workers demanding the implementation of a new minimum wage clashed with police at an industrial zone in southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving up to three people dead and 100 hurt, police and news reports said. (AP Photo/ Alauddin Hossain Dulall)
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HIS POINT: Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II says the Obamacare case isn't about health insurance, "it's about liberty." (Associated Press)
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Steel mill workers raise their hands in support of a point made at the gathering, one of many being held in neighborhoods and workplaces across Cuba between now and April. (Associated Press)
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An attendee examines a Spanish-language document "Guidelines for Economic and Social Politics" during the meeting, which took up "macroeconomic policies," "science, technological and innovation" and "transportation policies," among other things. (Associated Press)
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Arturo Martinez speaks at a meeting with labor union and Communist Party leaders on Cuba's economic problems at the steel mill Antillana de Acero in Havana. Major free-market reforms are in the works on the island nation. (Associated Press)
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Protesting Bangladeshi garments workers burn tires and furniture to block traffic in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010. Workers demanding the implementation of a new minimum wage clashed with police at an industrial zone, leaving up to three people dead and 100 hurt, police and news reports said. (AP Photo/Alauddin Hossain Dulall)
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Bolivia's President Evo Morales, left, signs the new retirement law in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. The law lowers the country's retirement age to 58 and also nationalizes the pension system and extends coverage to the 60 percent of Bolivians who work in the informal economy. At right is Pedro Montes, leader of Bolivia's Workers Central Union. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
