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Milagros Rodriguez, from the Dominican Republic, works at her salon, Woodside Beauty Salon in Queens, N.Y. A study says two-thirds of job growth since 2009 has been among immigrants. (Associated Press)

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Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in New York. Traffic is snarled, subways out of commission, streets flooded and power out in many parts of the city, but the exchange opened without hitch Wednesday after a historic two-day shutdown, courtesy of Hurricane Sandy. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg talks to traders before ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in New York on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Stock quotes and traders in seen reflected in monitors on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Traffic is snarled, subways out of commission, streets flooded and power out in many parts of the city, but the New York Stock Exchange opened without hitch Wednesday after an historic two-day shutdown, courtesy of Hurricane Sandy. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Traffic is snarled, subways out of commission, streets flooded and power out in many parts of the city, but the New York Stock Exchange opened without hitch Wednesday after an historic two-day shutdown, courtesy of Hurricane Sandy. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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A police car patrols in front of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, before it reopens for trading for the first time this week following a two-day shutdown due to superstorm Sandy. Stock futures are rising ahead of the opening bell. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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** FILE ** Former Sen. Alan K. Simpson (left) and former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, co-chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, take part in a news conference on deficit reduction on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011, at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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The Wizards were 7-4 with Nene on the court last season after he was acquired from Denver at the trading deadline. (Associated Press)

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Jason Locke sweeps water and mud from his parents' home in Westport, Mass., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Many homeowners who suffered losses because of flooding from Hurricane Sandy are likely to find themselves out of luck. Standard homeowners policies don't cover flooding damage, and the vast majority of homeowners don't have flood insurance.Yet it's likely that many Northeasterners will purchase it in coming months, hoping they'll be covered the next time around, at a cost averaging around $600 a year. (AP Photo/The Standard Times, Peter Pereira)

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In this photo provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a surveillance camera captures the PATH station in Hoboken, N.J., as it is flooded shortly before 9:30 p.m. EDT on Oct. 29, 2012. (Associated Press/Port Authority of New York and New Jersey)

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Scott Dressel, who has put much of his savings into buying and restoring homes in Steubenville, Ohio, is a partner in an effort to renovate the Grand Theatre downtown to help spur economic development. Steubenville’s population contracted faster than anywhere else in the country between 1980 and 2000. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Steubenville’s decline has been extreme. Unemployment in the once-prosperous Ohio steel mill town topped 15 percent two years ago. The jobless rate as of last month still stood at 10.6 percent. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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The floor of the New York Stock Exchange was without traders Monday as the market closed for the first time since the days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. If the NYSE remains closed Tuesday, it would be the first two-day shutdown for the exchange due to weather since 1888. (Associated Press)

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The floor of the New York Stock Exchange is empty of traders, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. All major U.S. stock and options exchanges will remain closed Monday with Hurricane Sandy nearing landfall on the East Coast. Trading has rarely stopped for weather. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)