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Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013, before the House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on the effects the government shutdown is having on benefits and services to veterans. About 3.8 million veterans will not receive disability compensation next month if the partial government shutdown continues into late October, Shinseki told lawmakers Wednesday. Some 315,000 veterans and 202,000 surviving spouses and dependents will see pension payments stopped. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, left, speaks at a news conference on enrollment in affordable health coverage in Cleveland Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. Sebelius pointed to in-person assistance available in the Cleveland area to help people choose and enroll in affordable coverage options in the Health Insurance Marketplace. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
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** FILE ** In this June 12, 2013, file photo, workers assemble Volkswagen Passat sedans at the German automaker's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. Workers at Volkswagen's only U.S. factory will decide in February 2014 whether to be represented by the United Auto Workers union. (AP Photo/ Erik Schelzig, file)
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In this Dec. 12, 2013 photo provided by A Better Balance, caregiver Dena Adams, left, accompanied by attorney Phoebe Taubman, testifies before the New York City Council Civil Rights Committee. If you don't get a job because you're a woman, or you get fired because you're black, or you get put on a bad shift because you're gay, there's a law for that. But if you're punished at work because you need time to talk to your kid's teacher on the phone or take your elderly mother to the doctor, you might be out of luck. In most places around the country, advocates say, there's no explicit protection against employment discrimination based on a worker's status as a caregiver. A pending bill in New York City aims to plug that hole. (AP Photo/A Better Balance)
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In this Thursday Jan. 30, 2014 photo, Mendota, Calif. Mayor Robert Silva, 72, explains how the state’s drought is sure to drive up unemployment in his rural farming town during an interview in Mendota. Five years ago, the last dry year and height of the national recession, farm workers lined up for free food as unemployment exceeding 40 percent in Mendota. Silva fears that this year the food lines will be even longer. (AP Photo/Scott Smith)
