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** FILE ** Employees work on the production line at the Foxconn complex in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in May 2010. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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Chicago teachers and their supporters rallied as Mayor Rahm Emanuel sought a compromise. Though the union didn’t win everything it wanted, the battle has encouraged teachers unions to hold workshops and town halls in other cities. (Associated Press)

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Dwayne Hogue lost his job as a special police officer after having a gun in the District that he had a legal right to carry in Maryland. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)

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In this Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, photo, WorkForce One staffer Rose Capote-Marcus works with a client, Pen Osuji as he works on job applications at the Hollywood, Fla. unemployment office. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell by 3,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 382,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

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D.C. City Council council member, Michael Brown, works during the first whole city council meeting after the summer recess. Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, in Washington, DC. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)

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D.C. City Council council member, Michael Brown, works with a staffer during the first whole city council meeting after the summer recess. Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, in Washington, DC. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)

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Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, smiles Sept. 18, 2012, as she talks with reporters in Chicago after the union's House of Delegates voted to suspend a seven-day strike. (Associated Press)

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Mary Edmonds, a member of the Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates, celebrates after the delegates voted to suspend the strike against the school district Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)