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**FILE** A construction worker wearing a safety harness installs roofing tiles June 27, 2012, in Springfield, Ill. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this June 28, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney pauses while speaking about the Supreme Court's health care ruling in Washington. High unemployment threatens not only President Barack Obama's re-election prospects. It will also bedevil whoever occupies the White House for the next four years. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Army veteran Chester Dixon (right) works with William Moore, a Georgia Department of Labor veterans representative, to apply for a new skills-based program to get out-of-work veterans trained and back into the job market in Atlanta. (Associated Press)
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says some ballot efforts in November, particularly those by public sector unions, are "a stifling of Michigan's reinvention." (Associated Press)
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Utility workers secure power lines on a pole as their team repairs lines downed by fallen trees in Springfield. (Associated Press)
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Utility workers secure power lines as their team repairs electrical wires downed by fallen trees in Springfield, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
