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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)

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As the White House releases its National AIDS Strategy Tuesday, Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation launched an ad campaign comparing President Obama's AIDS policy with President George W. Bush's. (Graphic: AIDS Healthcare Foundation)

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Tourists wait in a line for tickets outside the entrance to the Acropolis hill in Athens, Tuesday, July 13, 2010, during a strike by Culture Ministry employees. (AP Photo/Evi Zoupanou)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS In this photo taken June 28, 2010, job seekers wait in line to register and attend a National Career Fair in San Francisco. Initial claims for unemployment benefits rose for the second time in three weeks last week, a sign that layoffs are rising.

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** FILE ** This June 16, 2010 file photo shows a World Cup security workers' march during a demonstration against the World Cup in Durban, South Africa. Long-term, South Africa may reap a windfall for defying the skeptics and successfully hosting the World Cup. Short-term, the profits are heading elsewhere while unions gripe and the nation's already staggering unemployment rate climbs higher. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts at the beginning of a special budget meeting of the cabinet at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, June 6, 2010. Chancellor Angela Merkel met with her ministers to hammer out a savings plan for the nation's budget that could include cuts to federal staff, social welfare benefits or tax hikes. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

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In this photo taken June 28, 2010, Flora Guan, left, and Jessica Yang, right, recent graduates of San Francisco State University, fill out forms to take part in surveys with Fieldwork San Francisco at a National Career Fair in San Francisco. The unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent, its lowest level in almost a year. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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In this photo taken June 28, 2010, Talia Dashow, right, with Mary Kay cosmetics explains sales opportunities during a National Career Fair in San Francisco. Initial claims for unemployment benefits rose for the second time in three weeks last week, a sign that layoffs are rising.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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People march during a protest on the Old-Port in Marseille, southern France, on Thursday June 24, 2010. Many French trains stood still, schoolchildren played instead of studied and post offices were shuttered as workers nationwide went on strike Thursday to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age to 62. Nearly 200 marches and protests are planned for several cities over a broad reform to the money-losing pension system, part of efforts around Europe to cut back on growing public debts. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

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Dodge County Election Commisioner Fred Mytty holds the unofficial results to a special election held Monday June 21, 2010, in Fremont, Neb. The election was for a proposal to ban hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants.(AP Photo/Dave Weaver)

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In this photo taken May 3, 2010, Andrew Baamonde, left, of SNI Companies, talks to job seeker Bruce Koninsburg, who has been without a job for three months, at the National Career Fair in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A majority of states saw their unemployment rates drop in May. But the widespread declines were mainly because people gave up work searches and were no longer counted.(AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

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Electrical power lines are seen below storm clouds in a field near Newtown, Pa., on May 8, 2010. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that energy prices fell 1.5 percent in May, the biggest drop since a 2.2 percent decline in February. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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A Romanian woman holds up her bloodied hand after being injured in scuffles with riot police outside the parliament building, during protests in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Romanian protesters hold up impaled effigies depicting the country's president and government members during a protest in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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A protester steps on an effigy depicting Romanian President Traian Basescu during a protest in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Romanian lawmakers vote on procedures before a no-confidence vote in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Romanians scuffle with riot police outside the parliament building in Bucharest during protests Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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An elderly survivor holds a poster of Warren Anderson, the head of Union Carbide Corp. at the time of the gas leak, as she waits for the verdict in the premises of Bhopal court in Bhopal, India, on June 7, 2010. The court convicted seven former senior employees of Union Carbide's Indian subsidiary of "death by negligence" for their roles in the Bhopal gas tragedy that left an estimated 15,000 people dead more than a quarter century ago in the world's worst industrial disaster. (Associated Press)

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Job seekers wait on line at a New York job fair in 2010. Social engineering through employer mandates "increases the cost of labor and discourages hiring," writes Logan Delany, Jr. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)