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Low pay means low productivity in communist Cuba, where the state employs 95 percent of the official work force. Now, facing a severe budget deficit, President Raul Castro has hinted at restructuring or pruning the government payroll. (Associated Press)
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Public demonstrations drew 1,000 protesters to Bell City Hall last week. Protesters called for the resignation of the part-time City Council members who approved the six-figure salaries of officials, and who themselves received high pay after holding a 2005 special election to make Bell a charter city. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama addresses employees at the Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit, Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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President Barack Obama addresses employees at the Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit, Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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In this photograph taken July 22, 2010, employees sort garlic cloves at the Christopher Ranch, in Gilroy, Calif. The recovery lost momentum in the second quarter as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year and too weak to drive down unemployment. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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Associated Press photographs Ousted federal employee Shirley Sherrod addresses a black journalists convention Thursday in San Diego. She said she would take legal action against blogger Andrew Breitbart.
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Comcast logos are displayed on installation trucks in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. Comcast Corp., a leading cable, entertainment and communications company, announced Wednesday, Feb. 16, that the company's planned annual dividend has increased 19% to $0.45 per share. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Fremont resident Lesley Velez urges the city council to not implement a new city ordinance that would make it illegal to rent to, and hire illegal immigrants, during a city council meeting, in Fremont, Neb., Tuesday, July 27, 2010. A voter-approved ban on hiring and renting property to illegal immigrants was suspended Tuesday by the Fremont City Council, less than two days before it was set to take effect in the eastern Nebraska city. Council members voted 8-0 to delay an ordinance that is being challenged by two federal lawsuits, saying the move will save the city money in its legal defense. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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Bell, Calif. resident Carmen Bella, 76, yells at city council members during a city council meeting addressing city leaders' pay, Monday, July 26, 2010, in Bell, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Pedro Carrillo, left, interim city manager of Bell, Calif., shares a word with city councilor George Mirabal during a city council meeting addressing city leaders' pay, Monday, July 26, 2010, in Bell, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Fired Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod is contemplating a lawsuit against blogger Andrew Breitbart for an edited video of her that he posted. (Associated Press)
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Eric Bilderback (left) holds his resume as he talks with Mike Watson, a business employment specialist at WorkSource Oregon, on Tuesday, July 20, 2010, in Portland, Ore. Congress approved a bill on Thursday, July 22, 2010, that extends unemployment benefits for an estimated 2.5 million Americans. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Job seekers search online for job listings at the Oakland Career Center on Friday, July 2, 2010, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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President Obama leaves the Rose Garden on Monday after saying Republicans are wrong to withhold more unemployment benefits from people looking for work such as, from left: Leslie Macko, from Charlottesville, Va., Jim Chukalas, from Fredon Township, N.J., and Denise Gibson, from Brooklyn, N.Y. They were invited to appear with the president as a way to humanize his plea for another extension of jobless benefits. (Associated Press)
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U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the economy and the need to extend unemployment benefits at the White House on July 19, 2010. Mr. Obama was joined by Jim Chukalas, an unemployed parts manager from New Jersey, and Leslie Macko, an unemployed aesthetician from Charlottesville, Virginia. (UPI/Kevin Dietsch)
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President Barack Obama delivers remarks on extending unemployment insurance in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 19, 2010. The White House announced Tuesday a push for government workers to travel less. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama stands with, from left to right: Denise Gibson from Brooklyn, N.Y., Jim Chukalas from Fredon Township, N.J., and Leslie Macko from Charlottesville, Va., all unemployed, as he speaks about the unemployment insurance and the economy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Gov. Gary R. Herbert and Kristen Cox, Executive Director of the Utah Department of Workforce Services, hold a news conference to discuss an alleged illegal immigrant list at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, July 16, 2010. Utah officials said Friday they have identified at least two state workers who apparently accessed confidential documents to create a list of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants that was mailed to law enforcement officials and the news media. (AP Photo/Deseret News, Jeffrey D. Allred)
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** FILE ** In this June 28, 2010, photo, job seekers wait in line to attend at a National Career Fair in San Francisco. New applications for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week as General Motors and other manufacturers skipped their usual summer shutdowns. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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** FILE ** In this photo taken on June 3, 2010, job seeker Ron Bishop, left, gets some employment advice from Ramon Lupian, Placement Service Representative for Goodwill Industries International Inc., at the ninth annual Skid Row Career Fair, held at Los Angeles Mission, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Adam Lau)
