Social Issues

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Young workers are having a hard time getting even entry-level jobs. McDonald's managers, who once hired a lot of first-time workers, now can choose older employees with more experience who don't have to wait until classes end to show up. (Associated Press)

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A man in a wheelchair shouts slogans outside the Interior Ministry during a protest Thursday in Athens demanding welfare payments. People with disabilities have not received payments for two months. Greece, which has been mired in a financial crisis for 2 1/2 years, has avoided bankruptcy by receiving loans. (Associated Press)

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Loretta Nowakowski, president of the Democratic Club at the Greenspring retirement commmunity in Springfield, chats with Democratic Senate hopeful Tim Kaine, who was there to court seniors. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Tensions between the Chinese people and foreigners – countries and visitors alike – are on the rise. Examples range from Chinese protesters (above) voicing their anger with the Philippines at the embassy in Beijing to a foreign woman teasing a young boy in Tiananmen Square (top). Many view the antagonism as an attempt by China's government to put the spotlight on outsiders as a distraction from the slowing economy, a high-level political scandal and a blind activist's daring flight into U.S. custody. (Associated Press)

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Michael Alvarez Montoya (right), originally of El Salvador, looks up as he waits to go on stage to receive his certificate of citizenship from Alejandro Mayorkas, director of U.S. Citieznship and Immigration Services, at a naturalization ceremony Thursday, May 24, 2012 at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is at odds with advocacy groups for vetoing a bill to allow a neglected or abused child to go to school where a caregiving relative lives. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Sens. Susan Collins, left, and Joe Lieberman have a private conversation on the dais during a hearing by the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in which United States Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan testified about the Secret Service scandal in Cartagena in which agents soliticted prostitutes. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Maryland House Minority Leader Anthony J. O'Donnell says “this deal was cut” regarding a second special session for a Prince George's County casino proposal. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)