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In a Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 photo, employees of the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel wait in line during an employment job fair at the property in Atlantic City, NJ. The casino will close on Jan. 13, 2014, leaving thousands of unemployed workers in its wake. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Michael Ein)
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FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2013 file photo, Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner speaks at a news conference in Chicago. The minimum wage debate could be top issue on 2014 campaign trail. Evidence of that came this week as Rauner, a venture capitalist, backtracked from past comments saying he’d advocate cutting the rate. He emerged last week as as the Republican candidate most open to raising the minimum wage, telling The Associated Press he’d be comfortable with up to $10 an hour if either the national rate is raised or Illinois reforms workers compensation. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2013 file photo, Illinois state Sen. Bill Brady, R-Bloomington, left, and Illinois state Treasurer Dan Rutherford, both Republican candidates for governor in 2014, speak with supporters at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Ill. The minimum wage debate could be top issue on 2014 campaign trail. Both Brady and Rutherford said they're against raising the minimum wage, according to candidate questionnaires from the Associated Press. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
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FILE - In this July 15, 2013 file photo, Republican state Sen. Kirk Dillard officially announces his run for Illinois governor in 2014 outside his childhood home in Chicago. The minimum wage debate could be top issue on 2014 campaign trail. Dillard said that considering the state’s high unemployment and fiscal problems, raising the rate would be too big of a risk. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2013 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Chicago. The debate on raising Illinois’ minimum wage _ an issue that’s percolated for years _ could take center stage throughout the 2014 election season as Quinn vows to get legislation approved in Springfield by year’s end and Republicans work to fine tune their stances. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS JAN. 11-12 - In this Oct.14, 2013 photo, Ranger Kevin Pape poses near the tunnel on Tunnel Trail at Stone State Park in Sioux City, Iowa. Many of the trails at the rural Sioux City state park, including Tunnel Trail, were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC was a New Deal program designed to promote conservation and provide employment to men out of work due to the Great Depression. (AP Photo/Sioux City Journal, Tim Hynds) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES; TV OUT
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** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, photo, Yolanda Madrid of Miami, left, talks with navigator Daniela Campos, right, while signing up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, in Miami. Mirroring problems with the federal health care website, people around the nation attempting to navigate the Spanish version have discovered their own set of difficulties. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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In this Jan. 10, 2014 photo, Stan Osnowitz poses in his living room in Baltimore. A cutoff of unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed has left more than 1.3 million Americans with a stressful decision: What now? Osnowitz, 67, lost his state unemployment benefits of $430 a week in December. The money put gasoline in his car so he could look for work. An extra three months of benefits - one of the options Congress is debating in an effort to restore the federal program - would enable his job search to continue into the spring, when construction activity usually increases and more electrical jobs become available. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
