Labor

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The vote by Republicans to require Americans to return the full amount of subsidy overpayment for health insurance exchange coverage was blasted Rep. Fortney Pete Stark, California Democrat. (Associated Press)

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Amanda Clayton won a $1 million lottery jackpot but continued to collect food stamps and public health insurance, leading to state welfare fraud charges. (Michigan Lottery via Detroit Free Press)

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Mechanic Doug Isonio works on parts for a Bay Area Rapid Transit subway train at the system's maintenance yard. BART still uses 449 of its original 669 cars from 1972, but circuit boards and other electrical components are no longer manufactured, so employees scour eBay and cannibalize some cars for parts. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Office workers leave the headquarters of Sony Corp. in Tokyo Tuesday, April 10, 2012. Faced with mounting losses, Sony Corp. said Thursday April 12, 2012, it will slash 10,000 jobs, or about 6 percent of its global workforce, and turn around its money-losing TV business over the next two years. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

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Bobby Petrino's downfall at Arkansas started with a motorcycle crash and ended with revelations that he paid his mistress $20,000 before hiring her to the football staff. (Associated Press)

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has proposed some minor changes to a massive overhaul of the state's depleted pension fund. (Associated Press)

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Employees leave the headquarters of Sony Corp. in Tokyo on Tuesday, April 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

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Facebook is spending $1 billion to buy Instagram, a photo-sharing app in use on an iPhone. It is paying cash and stock for the company and hiring its dozen or so employees. (Associated Press)

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Auto workers stack the inner door panel for the Ford Explorer on April 4, 2012, at the Ford Stamping Plant in Chicago Heights, Ill. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Job seekers stand in line March 7, 2012, during the Career Expo job fair in Portland, Ore. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Former General Services Administration chief Martha Johnson resigned after her agency spent lavishly at a training conference for federal workers in Henderson, Nev., near Las Vegas. (Associated Press)

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Office workers wearing hard hats stand outside a building that was evacuated after an aftershock shook Mexico City on Monday, April 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

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Nuno Pinto is out of work and out of money. He fears losing the family home near Lisbon and going into personal bankruptcy. Portuguese lenders demanding debt-reducing austerity measures have helped put the country into a steep decline, with a second straight year of worsening recession and record unemployment. (Associated Press)

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"We keep passing the buck, and ultimately somebody's got to pay the bill. And I don't think it's fair to expect state employees, local employees and local governments to pay it," said Delegate Jennifer L. McClellan, Richmond Democrat, of the pension overhaul. (Associated Press)

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A riot police officer clashes with a demonstrator during a general strike in Barcelona on Thursday. Spanish unions angry over economic reforms are waging a general strike, challenging a conservative government not yet 100 days old and joining other troubled European workers in venting their frustration on the street. (Associated Press)

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Protesters shout slogans against the Pakistani government to condemn killings in Quetta, Pakistan, on Thursday, March 29, 2012, after an attack by a gunman who appeared to target local employees of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, officials said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)