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In this photo taken June 28, 2010, Talia Dashow, right, with Mary Kay cosmetics explains sales opportunities during a National Career Fair in San Francisco. Initial claims for unemployment benefits rose for the second time in three weeks last week, a sign that layoffs are rising.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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People march during a protest on the Old-Port in Marseille, southern France, on Thursday June 24, 2010. Many French trains stood still, schoolchildren played instead of studied and post offices were shuttered as workers nationwide went on strike Thursday to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age to 62. Nearly 200 marches and protests are planned for several cities over a broad reform to the money-losing pension system, part of efforts around Europe to cut back on growing public debts. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
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Dodge County Election Commisioner Fred Mytty holds the unofficial results to a special election held Monday June 21, 2010, in Fremont, Neb. The election was for a proposal to ban hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants.(AP Photo/Dave Weaver)
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In this photo taken May 3, 2010, Andrew Baamonde, left, of SNI Companies, talks to job seeker Bruce Koninsburg, who has been without a job for three months, at the National Career Fair in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A majority of states saw their unemployment rates drop in May. But the widespread declines were mainly because people gave up work searches and were no longer counted.(AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
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Electrical power lines are seen below storm clouds in a field near Newtown, Pa., on May 8, 2010. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that energy prices fell 1.5 percent in May, the biggest drop since a 2.2 percent decline in February. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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A Romanian woman holds up her bloodied hand after being injured in scuffles with riot police outside the parliament building, during protests in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Romanian protesters hold up impaled effigies depicting the country's president and government members during a protest in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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A protester steps on an effigy depicting Romanian President Traian Basescu during a protest in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Romanian lawmakers vote on procedures before a no-confidence vote in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Romanians scuffle with riot police outside the parliament building in Bucharest during protests Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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An elderly survivor holds a poster of Warren Anderson, the head of Union Carbide Corp. at the time of the gas leak, as she waits for the verdict in the premises of Bhopal court in Bhopal, India, on June 7, 2010. The court convicted seven former senior employees of Union Carbide's Indian subsidiary of "death by negligence" for their roles in the Bhopal gas tragedy that left an estimated 15,000 people dead more than a quarter century ago in the world's worst industrial disaster. (Associated Press)
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Job seekers wait on line at a New York job fair in 2010. Social engineering through employer mandates "increases the cost of labor and discourages hiring," writes Logan Delany, Jr. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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** FILE ** Workers prepare planes at the Continental terminal at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland in October 2005. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
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**FILE** Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, speaks during a health-care-reform town-hall meeting in Waldorf, Md., on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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** FILE ** Trays of printed Social Security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management Services facility in Philadelphia in 2005. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** President Obama participates in an AARP town hall on health care on July 28, 2009, in Washington. (Associated Press)
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In this Nov. 4, 2009 file photo, a Detroit woman holds a Employment Guide standing in line while attending a job fair in Livonia, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) **FILE**
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This artwork by M. Ryder relates to the debate about President Bush's proposal to partially privatize Social Security.
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Job seekers line up at a Little Rock, Ark., job fair. "Imposing mandates on employers to advance assorted social engineering agendas increases the cost of labor and discourages hiring," says Logan Delany, Jr. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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** FILE ** Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a Republican, filed the lawsuit to strike down the federal health-care law in defense of a new state law that prohibits the government from forcing state residents to buy health insurance. (The Washington Times)
