Social Issues

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Job seekers attend a health care job fair on Thursday, March 14, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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Ideal for weary political operatives, perhaps, Death Wish Coffee has three times the caffeine as the typical brew. (Courtesy of Death Wish Coffee)

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associated press An Indian Tamil activist shouts slogans Wednesday in Mumbai during a protest against Sri Lanka’s alleged wartime abuses. A key ethnic Tamil party withdrew from India’s coalition government Tuesday, and it has demanded that the U.N. Human Rights Council resolution accuse Sri Lanka of genocide against the minority Tamil population.

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The 2010 census gave respondents 14 options for ethnicity, as well as a place to write in another ethnic group with which they identified. Under the two-question set-up, however, respondents only have seven options. (Associated Press)

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Juanita Tudor Lowrey, 86, holds a photo of her father, Civil War veteran Hugh Tudor, on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, in Kearney, Mo. Ms. Lowrey received pension benefits related to her father's Civil War service until she was 18 after her father died when she was 2 years old. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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Ohio high school students taking the “U.S. Political Thought and Radicalism” class have had members of the Westboro Baptist Church, an ardently anti-gay church known for its protests, as guest speakers. (Associated Press)

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Virginia’s roads and infrastructure has been an ongoing issue, but Gov. Bob McDonnell is taking heat for a bill that will hike the sales tax from 5 to 5.3 percent and allow an additional sales tax in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads. (Associated Press)

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This video framegrab provided by the gay rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign shows former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announcing her support for gay marriage, putting her in line with other potential Democratic presidential candidates on a social issue that is rapidly gaining public approval. Clinton made the announcement in an online video released March 18, 2013, by the Human Rights Campaign. She says in the six-minute video that gays and lesbians are "full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship." (Associated Press/Human Rights Campaign)