Labor

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FILE - This 2010, file photo shows Boston Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell. The Toronto Blue Jays appear set to hire a manager, with Farrell expected to get the job. Farrell has never managed in the majors and would succeed Cito Gaston, who retired after the season. Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos would not confirm the hiring to The Associated Press on Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland speaks in Columbus, Ohio, last month. Some of the sharpest bare-knuckle skirmishes of this midterm election season have been for governor's mansions — especially in states shouldering the highest unemployment rates and largest tax increases. Mr. Strickland and Republican John Kasich have clashed over taxes and how to lead the state out of the economic crisis. Mr. Kasich, a former congressman, accuses Mr. Strickland of doing too little to lessen Ohio's tax burden. (Associated Press)

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President Nicolas Sarkozy plans to sign the pension reform measure into law this week. Polls show Mr. Sarkozy's approval rating had dropped below 30 percent for the first time. (Associated Press)

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Railway workers vote to renew the strike at the Bordeaux train station in southwestern France on Friday. Mr. Sarkozy ordered regional authorities to intervene and force open depots. (Associated Press)

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In this photo taken Sept. 29, 2010, a job seeker waits, with resumes in hand, to speak to recruiters while attending a Global Recruiting Solutions job fair in Livonia, Mich. Unemployment fell in 23 states and Washington, D.C., rose in 11 states and was unchanged in 16 during September, the Labor Department said Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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CIA Director Leon E. Panetta said that despite glaring security blunders, no intelligence officials will be fired or disciplined for failing to prevent a 2009 suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA employees in one of the deadliest attacks in the agency's history. (Associated Press)

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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is waging a quiet war against al Qaeda in Yemen. (Associated Press)

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Floridian Betty Dizik, 83, is upset that she won't receive a Social Security cost-of-living increase again this year. She gets by on a monthly Social Security check of $1,200, her only source of income. (Associated Press)

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A boy hired to wash blood from an ambulance in Mogadishu, Somalia, won't be able to finish the job before its driver races off again to answer a call for help. (Associated Press)

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Workers take to the streets during a protest in Marseille, France, on Tuesday Oct.12, 2010. Teachers, mail carriers, bus drivers and other French workers tried to shut down France in a showdown with President Nicolas Sarkozy over his government's attempt to raise the retirement age by two years to save money. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

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Job seekers browse through information during an Oct. 5 jobs fair sponsored by Scott Lee Cohen, Independent Illinois gubernatorial candidate, in Rockford, Ill. (Associated Press)

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Christopher Pissarides (shown), along with Dale Mortensen and Peter Diamond, developed a tool that is used as to estimate how unemployment benefits, interest rates and other factors can affect the labor market. (Bloomberg)

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Dale Mortensen (shown), along with Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, developed a tool that is used as to estimate how unemployment benefits, interest rates and other factors can affect the labor market. (Associated Press)

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Peter Diamond (shown), along with Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides, developed a tool that is used as to estimate how unemployment benefits, interest rates and other factors can affect the labor market. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this March 14, 2006, file photo, the Wal-Mart store in Princeton, N.J., is seen. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private employer, plans to end automatic profit-sharing contributions for its employees in a revamp of its benefits package that it says will give workers more chance to share in its financial success. (AP Photo/Jose F. Moreno, File)

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FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2010 file photo, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., talks during a discussion on workforce development held at Local 51 facility in East Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, file)

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In this Oct. 5, 2010, photo, Timothy King of Rockton, Ill., fills out some paperwork as Kevin Numbers, left, talks with Scott Lee Cohen, Independent Candidate for Governor of Illinois during a job fair in Rockford, Ill. Applications for unemployment benefits fell last week for the fourth time in five weeks, a sign that layoffs are declining. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)