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Rep. Johnny Berthelot, R-Gonzales, asks questions about the depletion of a state health insurance fund during a meeting of the House Appropriations Committee on Monday, May 5, 2014, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

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Rep. Rogers Pope, R-Denham Springs, asks questions about the depletion of a state health insurance fund during a meeting of the House Appropriations Committee on Monday, May 5, 2014, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

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Roundup for Russia: Militants march Ukrainian state employees away from the regional administration building in Donetsk on Monday, continuing their campaign of seizing and ransacking government buildings across restive eastern Ukraine. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2006 file photo, Cylette Senatus, center, assembles a zipper on an athletic jacket, alongside dozens of other skilled seamstresses, at the AG Textile factory, in Port au Prince. Haiti raised slightly its minimum wage for the estimated 29,000 workers who sew together T-shirts and other clothing in the country's apparel factories. President Michel Martelly, his prime minister and a Cabinet member who oversees labor conditions signed the 12.5 percent increase into law. It took effect Thursday, May 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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In this April 15, 2014 photo, East High School senior Sandy Ocon, 17, cuts carrots and celery for soup at Hoffman House in Rockford, Ill. Ocon is one of eight juniors and seniors from across the district who have spent much of the year learning their way around the kitchen at Hoffman House. When they complete the program, students have a year of culinary education that often leads to employment at area restaurants, bakeries and grocery stores. (AP Photo/Rockford Register Star, Max Gersh) MANDATORY CREDIT