Labor

402eafaa88e79b0d500f6a70670066ae.jpg

Kansas state Rep. John Bradford, center, a Lansing Republican, faces questions from Kansas National Education Association members outside the House chamber, Sunday, April 6, 2014, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The KNEA is the state's largest teachers union and does not want a school funding plan to include a proposal for ending teacher tenure. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

392537f8898b9e0d500f6a7067008c8f.jpg

Members of the Kansas National Education Association, the state's largest teachers' union, follow the Senate's debate on a school funding bill from the gallery, Sunday, April 6, 2014, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The KNEA opposes the bill because it includes provisions making it easier to fire teachers. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Heroin Seeking Sobriety.JPEG-0bcb7.jpg

In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014, photo, Nora Milligan looks through a pile of legal health care documents before an interview at her home in Patchogue, N.Y. Milligan, a single mother, fought health care providers in court for denial of care to her heroin-addicted son. Having exhausted her finances for his care, she continues to live in the home she raised him even as it is being foreclosed. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

868c7375876e940d500f6a706700887d.jpg

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 29, 2011file photo a pedestrian walks across an intersection in downtown Aurora, Ill. With a population of nearly 200,000 and a booming Hispanic population, Aurora has grown into the state’s second largest city over the last decade. It faces a steep climb in required payments to police and fire pensions, increasing more than $1 million each year for the next 25 years, and has already laid off city workers. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast,File)

3e235d05876f940d500f6a706700115d.jpg

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 29, 2011 file photo a pedestrian walks across an intersection in downtown Aurora, Ill. With a population of nearly 200,000 and a booming Hispanic population, Aurora has grown into the state’s second largest city over the last decade. It faces a steep climb in required payments to police and fire pensions, increasing more than $1 million each year for the next 25 years, and has already laid off city workers. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast,File)

8be82393876f940d500f6a7067003a8a.jpg

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2013 file photo, Peoria firefighters attack a fire with an aerial truck at the Archer Daniels Midland plant in Peoria, Ill. Peoria, which has a population of 115,000, is in somewhat better shape than other larger Illinois cities when it comes to pension funding levels with about $160 million in unfunded debt, but Mayor Jim Ardis is still calling for changes in police and fire pension benefits going forward. He says legislators handed out generous benefits then left cities to foot the bill. “There is no way anybody can look at these pensions and realistically say they’re (always) going to be funded,” Ardis said.(AP Photo/Journal Star, Adam Gerik,File)

7a4e03d287b1950d500f6a706700e0dd.jpg

ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, Nora Milligan looks through a pile of legal healthcare documents before an interview at her home in Patchogue, N.Y. Milligan, a single mother, fought healthcare providers in court for denial of care to her heroin-addicted son. Having exhausted her finances for his care, she continues to live in the home she raised him even as it is being foreclosed. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

49b0118185488a0d500f6a706700c106.jpg

Red-shirted members of the Kansas National Education Association in the gallery of the Kansas House chamber raise their hands to show support for public schools as members leave for a break, Saturday, April 5, 2014, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The KNEA is the state's largest teachers' union and is protesting a proposal in an education funding bill to rewrite tenure rules. (AP Photo/John Hanna)