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President Barack Obama greets Gail O'Brien, from Keene, N.H., in the backyard of a private residence in Falls Church, Va., Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010, to discuss the Patient's Bill of Rights and health care reform. Earlier this year, O'Brien was diagnosed with high grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and had no health insurance. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Obama greets Gail O'Brien, from Keene, N.H., in the backyard of a private residence in Falls Church, Va., Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010, to discuss the Patient's Bill of Rights and health care reform. Earlier this year, Ms. O'Brien was diagnosed with high grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and had no health insurance. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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**FILE** President Obama greets Gail O'Brien, from Keene, N.H., in the back yard of a private residence in Falls Church, Va., on Sept. 22 to discuss the Patient's Bill of Rights and health care reform. Earlier this year, Ms. O'Brien was diagnosed with high grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and had no health insurance. (Associated Press)
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Workers remove debris from a collapsed pedestrian bridge near Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. The bridge, under construction near the Commonwealth Games main stadium, collapsed Tuesday, injuring at least 23 workers, police said. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2010 file photo, people use computers at an Internet cafe in Fuyang in central China's Anhui province. Google is hiring dozens of marketing and technical employees in China to defend a shrinking market share against local rivals after closing its Chinese search engine six months ago this Wednesday, Sept. 22 in a dispute over censorship. (AP Photo, File)
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Matthew Harris works with a white widow marijuana plant at Marjyn Investments LLC in Oakland, Calif. He is among 40 workers who joined the Teamsters this month. (Associated Press)
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Government employees line up to enter a state-run bus after work in Old Havana, Cuba, Monday Sept. 13, 2010. Raul Castro's government announced it will cast off at least half a million state employees by mid-2011 and reduce restrictions on private enterprise to help them find new jobs. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS "OK, we're in a bad way. We need to get some stuff done. ... If you want to get stuff done, hire somebody that's done stuff and I've done stuff," Democratic state Rep. Bryan Lentz said.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Although changes won't be noticed immediately, United and Continental airlines will combine their unionized work forces, merge reservation systems and repaint their planes with the United name and Continental globe logo.
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An unidentified man who lost his job two months ago after being hurt on the job works a Miami street corner to collect money for his family on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. The man said his unemployment check did not cover his costs of living. He added that his girlfriend works full time as a waitress. The ranks of the working-age poor climbed to the highest level since the 1960s as the recession threw millions of people out of work last year. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
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City workers start cleaning up behind the bicentennial parade in Mexico City, Wednesday Sept. 15, 2010. Mexico celebrates the 200th anniversary of its 1810 independence uprising. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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A sign in the window of the Chicago Workforce Center in Illinois instructs people how to file for unemployment insurance benefits online. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS People wait in Trenton, N.J., in July for the office of the state's Division of Pensions and Benefits to open. The number of public employee retirements in New Jersey is up dramatically this year, in part because of concerns that pension benefits could be cut.
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People wait outside the Trenton, N.J., office of the Division of Pensions and Benefits for the agency to open. The number of public employee retirements in New Jersey is up nearly 50 percent this year, partly because of concerns that pension benefits could be cut. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Manuel Cardenas repairs shoes in La Habanera, a state-run workshop in Havana, on Monday. The government announced it will cast off at least half a million state employees by 2011. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this June 2, 2010 file photo, job seekers wait on line to see potential employers at the Diversity Job Fair in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
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Unidentified employees talk outside the scene of a workplace shooting at the Kraft Foods Inc. facility in Northeast Philadelphia on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)
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In this Aug. 24, 2010, photograph, Dabura Karriem, 60, of Bloomfield, N.J., reacts upon hearing there is a job availability for exactly what she's looking for as a file clerk at a bank, while attending a career fair in Newark, N.J. The Labor Department said jobless claims fell by 27,000 to 451,000 last week. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this Aug. 26, 2010, photograph, University of Illinois at Springfield Career Counselor Gail Kilbury, right, speaks with students seeking employment, during a University of Illinois Job Fair in Springfield, Ill. Even though the economy is growing more slowly, companies in recent weeks are resisting making even deeper cuts to their work forces. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
