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**FILE** Job seekers gather May 31, 2012, for employment opportunities during the 11th annual Skid Row Career Fair at the Los Angeles Mission in Los Angeles. (Associated Press)
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A young man enters an office of the Labor Force Employment Organization, with graffiti under the logo of OAED reading ''Snow or rain the jobless are always hungry'' in Athens. Economists fear that years of unemployment could produce a European version of Japan's "Lost Generation," the young jobless adults of the 1990s. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this June 13, 2012, file photo, job seekers have their resumes reviewed at a job fair expo in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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Danny Sobel, whose family owns the Clock Shop in Vienna, Va., stands by two grandfather clocks in his shop. The one on the left was was made by Pennsylvania craftsman David Lindow, who with his son and a part-time employee builds about 125 clocks in a typical year. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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**FILE** A construction worker wearing a safety harness installs roofing tiles June 27, 2012, in Springfield, Ill. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this June 28, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney pauses while speaking about the Supreme Court's health care ruling in Washington. High unemployment threatens not only President Barack Obama's re-election prospects. It will also bedevil whoever occupies the White House for the next four years. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Army veteran Chester Dixon (right) works with William Moore, a Georgia Department of Labor veterans representative, to apply for a new skills-based program to get out-of-work veterans trained and back into the job market in Atlanta. (Associated Press)
