Social Issues

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National Edition News cover for January 14, 2014 - Wall Street soars, Main Street hurts: Despite his best efforts, the president who vowed to conquer Wall Street and revive opportunity for everyday Americans on Main Street has this to show for his first five years in office: U.S. stock markets are in record territory, posting 30 percent gains just last year, and Wall Street is home once again to the biggest concentration of billionaires on earth, while wages for the middle class have barely kept up with inflation. (AP photos)

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A man poses holding his cell phone Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Minneapolis. Lawmakers in the Minnesota House face a pre-filing deadline for bills ahead of the 2014 legislative session. A lawmaker is seeking a bill to require that providers include a "kill switch" to remotely disable lost or stolen phones. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

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Sen. Lindsey Graham says the Chris Christie scandal is a reflection on the New Jersey governor even though some of his aides were at the center of it. "It seems to me that this whole bridge thing reinforces a narrative that's troublesome about the guy. He's kind of a bully," the South Carolina Republican says. (Associated Press)

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer gestures during her State of the State address in the Arizona House of Representatives at the Arizona Capitol Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Phoenix. The Republican governor used her annual State of the State address to focus on overhauling a troubled child welfare agency, boosting the economy and changing the way schools are funded. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer gives her State of the State address in the Arizona House of Representatives at the Arizona Capitol Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Phoenix. The Republican governor used her annual State of the State address to focus on overhauling a troubled child welfare agency, boosting the economy and changing the way schools are funded. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, right, shakes hands with legislators and guests on the floor of the House of Representatives after giving her State of the State address at the Arizona Capitol Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Phoenix. The Republican governor used her annual State of the State address to focus on overhauling a troubled child welfare agency, boosting the economy and changing the way schools are funded. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Immigration rights protesters sit in front of Department of Public Safety police officers as they block the House of Representatives entrance after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer gives her State of the State address at the Arizona Capitol Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Phoenix. The Republican governor used her annual State of the State address to focus on overhauling a troubled child welfare agency, boosting the economy and changing the way schools are funded. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, right, shakes hands with House Minority Leader Chad Campbell, D-Phoenix, prior to her State of the State address in the Arizona House of Representatives at the Arizona Capitol Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Phoenix. The Republican governor used her annual State of the State address to focus on overhauling a troubled child welfare agency, boosting the economy and changing the way schools are funded. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announces her plan to end the current Child Protective Services agency by executive order during her State of the State address in the Arizona House of Representatives at the Arizona Capitol Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Phoenix. The Republican governor says she is getting rid of the state's scandal-plagued Child Protective Services agency and creating a new Cabinet-level division to oversee child welfare. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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A demonstrator walks through the crowd with a sign on her back during a protest calling for an expansion to Medicaid outside the State Capitol on the first day of the legislative session, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Atlanta. The protest marking the start of the "Moral Monday" movement in Georgia, aims to put pressure on Gov. Nathan Deal to expand Medicaid under the federal health care law. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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A police officer watches over a protest calling for an expansion to Medicaid outside the State Capitol on the first day of the legislative session, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Atlanta. The protest marking the start of the "Moral Monday" movement in Georgia, aims to put pressure on Gov. Nathan Deal to expand Medicaid under the federal health care law. Deal has said the state can't afford the expansion. The effort includes various advocacy groups and the Georgia NAACP, and is modeled after a group in North Carolina. Demonstrators there were arrested weekly last year. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Georgia Sen. Vincent Fort, D-Atlanta, speaks during a protest calling for an expansion to Medicaid outside the State Capitol on the first day of the legislative session, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Atlanta. The protest marking the start of the "Moral Monday" movement in Georgia, aims to put pressure on Gov. Nathan Deal to expand Medicaid under the federal health care law. Deal has said the state can't afford the expansion. The effort includes various advocacy groups and the Georgia NAACP, and is modeled after a group in North Carolina. Demonstrators there were arrested weekly last year. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Demonstrators listen to speakers during a protest calling for an expansion to Medicaid outside the State Capitol on the first day of the legislative session, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Atlanta. The protest marking the start of the "Moral Monday" movement in Georgia, aims to put pressure on Gov. Nathan Deal to expand Medicaid under the federal health care law. Deal has said the state can't afford the expansion. The effort includes various advocacy groups and the Georgia NAACP, and is modeled after a group in North Carolina. Demonstrators there were arrested weekly last year. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Chris Bondurant, of Atlanta, rear left, demonstrates during a protest calling for an expansion to Medicaid outside the State Capitol on the first day of the legislative session, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Atlanta. The protest marking the start of the "Moral Monday" movement in Georgia, aims to put pressure on Gov. Nathan Deal to expand Medicaid under the federal health care law. Deal has said the state can't afford the expansion. The effort includes various advocacy groups and the Georgia NAACP, and is modeled after a group in North Carolina. Demonstrators there were arrested weekly last year. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Sen. Jean Hunhoff, R-Yankton, carries a box of materials to her office in the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D., on Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, a day before the start of the 2014 South Dakota Legislature. Lawmakers during the session will examine a complex state budget proposed by Gov. Dennis Daugaard and debate state aid to schools, a possible expansion of Medicaid, and a proposal to abolish the death penalty. (AP Photo/Chet Brokaw)

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Senate minority leader Sharon Nelson, D-Maury Island, right, speaks from the floor on the first day of the 2014 session of the Washington state Legislature, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)