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Cover Oregon board members and others meet during a Cover Oregon board meeting in Portland, Ore., Thursday, March 13, 2014. A federal government report on Oregon's botched health insurance exchange faults the state's main information technology contractor for not providing key information to Cover Oregon and blames the exchange for lax management. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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FILE--In this Feb. 19, 2014 file photo, Saginaw attorney Victor Mastromarco Jr., right, stands with his client Destinee Bryce in the hallway of the Saginaw County Governmental Center after Bryce agreed to settle her lawsuit against Saginaw County and Sheriff William Federspiel. Saginaw County has agreed to pay $215,000 to Bryce, a part-time sheriff’s deputy, who says she was denied full-time work because she’s 4-foot-7, 95-pound woman. (AP Photo/The Saginaw News, Jeff Schrier)
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Actor Martin Sheen greets people at a church in Chicago, Thursday, March 13, 2014, after paying a visit to help Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn make his push to raise Illinois' minimum wage. The two spoke say raising Illinois' $8.25 rate is a moral issue. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Al Podgorski) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES
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Actor Martin Sheen greets people at a church in Chicago, Thursday, March 13, 2014, after paying a visit to help Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn make his push to raise Illinois' minimum wage. The two spoke say raising Illinois' $8.25 rate is a moral issue. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Al Podgorski) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES
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Actor Martin Sheen speaks at a church in Chicago, Thursday, March 13, 2014, as Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn looks on after Sheen came to the city to help the governor make his push to raise Illinois' minimum wage. Both Sheen and Quinn say raising Illinois' $8.25 rate is a moral issue. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Al Podgorski) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES
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FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005, file photo, customers at a Wal-Mart store head to the checkout lines past a worker with the company's motto on the back of her vest, in Salt Lake City. With fewer middle-income jobs available, low-wage work is becoming a dead-end for more Wal-Mart employees. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, March 11, 2014, men debate as people gather in a pro Russian camp in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine. The breakup of the Soviet Union and harsh economic realities of the market haven’t been kind to many local employers. Residents say many factories, including the locomotive works, have had to drastically cut both payrolls and production. Since Russian troops rolled into Crimea, and lawmakers there scheduled a referendum for Sunday on whether to join Russia, the world’s attention has focused on the fate of the lush peninsula that juts into the Black Sea. But here in Ukraine’s coal-fired industrial east, where Russians have lived for more than two centuries, a potent mix of economic depression, ethnic solidarity and nostalgia for the certainties of the Soviet past have many demanding the right to become part of Russia as well (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)