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Chuck Schwarz, right, talks with his wife Cathy at Heritage Woods of South Elgin, Friday, June 30, 2017, in South Elgin, Ill. Medicaid Americans 65 and order and the disabled make up about a quarter of Medicaid recipients but account for two-thirds of its expenditures. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Chuck Schwarz, right, takes walk with his wife Cathy at Heritage Woods of South Elgin, Friday, June 30, 2017, in South Elgin, Ill. Medicaid Americans 65 and order and the disabled make up about a quarter of Medicaid recipients but account for two-thirds of its expenditures. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Chuck Schwarz, left, takes walk with his wife Cathy at Heritage Woods of South Elgin, Friday, June 30, 2017, in South Elgin, Ill. Medicaid Americans 65 and order and the disabled make up about a quarter of Medicaid recipients but account for two-thirds of its expenditures. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Chuck Schwarz, left, holds hand with his wife Cathy at Heritage Woods of South Elgin, Friday, June 30, 2017, in South Elgin, Ill. Medicaid Americans 65 and order and the disabled make up about a quarter of Medicaid recipients but account for two-thirds of its expenditures. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Chuck Schwarz, left, holds hand with his wife Cathy at Heritage Woods of South Elgin, Friday, June 30, 2017, in South Elgin, Ill. Medicaid Americans 65 and order and the disabled make up about a quarter of Medicaid recipients but account for two-thirds of its expenditures. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Rep. Jodi Hack takes a photo as the House of Representatives works to vote on all bills and enact Sine Die to adjourn the legislative session at the state Capitol in Salem, Ore. on Friday, July 7, 2017. The Oregon Legislature has adjourned the 2017 session that saw the passage of record-funding for schools, a long-term transportation package, gun restrictions, cost-free abortions and health care funding for Medicaid and undocumented immigrants. (Anna Reed/Statesman-Journal via AP)
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People watch a video after the House of Representatives enacted Sine Die to adjourn the legislative session at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Ore. on Friday, July 7, 2017. The Oregon Legislature has adjourned the 2017 session that saw the passage of record-funding for schools, a long-term transportation package, gun restrictions, cost-free abortions and health care funding for Medicaid and undocumented immigrants. (Anna Reed/Statesman-Journal via AP)
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Rep. David Harris, R-Mount Prospect, left, explains why he would vote to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of a package of budget bills at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Thursday, July 6, 2017. Ten Republicans voted with Democrats to overturn the governor's veto approving the first state budget in more than two years. (Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, JULY 9, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT. AND THEREAFTER- FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2015, file photo, Pastor Yul Dorn poses for a portrait inside his home, where he was facing eviction due to foreclosure in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point district. Dorn and his wife expect to join the growing ranks of African-Americans who do not own their homes, a rate that was nearly 30 percentage points higher than that of whites in 2016, according to a report by Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies. The nation's homeownership rate appears to be stabilizing as people rebound from the 2007 recession according to the report. But it found African Americans aren't sharing in the recovery, even as whites, Asian Americans and Latinos slowly see gains in home-buying. The center said the disparity between whites and blacks is at its highest in 70-plus years of data. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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A man looks at a garbage can set on fire during a protest against the G-20 summit in Hamburg, northern Germany, Friday, July 7, 2017. The leaders of the group of 20 meet July 7 and 8. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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A man wearing a mask kicks wooden laths from a scaffold during a protest against the G-20 summit in Hamburg, northern Germany, Friday, July 7, 2017. The leaders of the group of 20 meet July 7 and 8. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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A garbage can is set on fire during a protest against the G-20 summit in Hamburg, northern Germany, Friday, July 7, 2017. The leaders of the group of 20 meet July 7 and 8. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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A garbage can is set on fire during a protest against the G-20 summit in Hamburg, northern Germany, Friday, July 7, 2017. The leaders of the group of 20 meet July 7 and 8. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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A man looks at a garbage can set on fire during a protest against the G-20 summit in Hamburg, northern Germany, Friday, July 7, 2017. The leaders of the group of 20 meet July 7 and 8. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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Kent Power workers respond to storm damage along Ottawa Avenue, near Mary A White Elementary School, in Grand Haven on Friday, July 7, 2017. (Cory Morse /The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
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Michael Rubinsteyn, co-owner of the Efes Cafe and Bakery, poses for a photo on Friday, July, 7, 2017, inside his business located in the Brighton Beach neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Rubinsteyn, 68, emigrated to the United States from Russia 40 years ago. New York City's Russian community has mixed emotions about the first meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/Steve Peoples)
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A San Antonio police officer salutes as the hearse with the casket of officer Miguel Moreno passes, Friday, July 7, 2017, in San Antonio. Moreno died of wounds suffered when he and his partner were shot by a man they intended to question about a vehicle break-in last week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Officers salute during services for San Antonio police officer Miguel Moreno, Friday, July 7, 2017, in San Antonio. Moreno died of wounds suffered when he and his partner were shot by a man they intended to question about a vehicle break-in last week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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San Antonio police officers salute during services for San Antonio police officer Miguel Moreno, Friday, July 7, 2017, in San Antonio. Moreno died of wounds suffered when he and his partner were shot by a man they intended to question about a vehicle break-in last week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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San Antonio police officers follow a caisson with the casket of fellow police officer Miguel Moreno, Friday, July 7, 2017, in San Antonio. Moreno died of wounds suffered when he and his partner were shot by a man they intended to question about a vehicle break-in last week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
