Labor

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Former "Dirty Jobs" host Mike Rowe

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Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney listens to testimony on employment at a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee, which she chairs. Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee want to claw back $21 million in excess profits from a spare parts manufacturer who they say has repeatedly fleeced the Pentagon. (Getty Images)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Job applicants line up at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, N.Y., to apply for work in what is shaping up to be the longest recession since the Great Depression. Extended benefits are about to run out for thousands of the unemployed.

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** FILE ** Korrapong Techaarpornkul (seated) of Los Angeles gets help from Yolanda de la Fuente, an employment specialist who assists students in finding new career opportunities, at the Pasadena City College Career Center in Pasadena, Calif., in March 2009. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this photo from June 3, 2008, an employee takes a drag on a cigarette at Morgan's Place bar and restaurant in Harrisburg, Pa. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** An employee collects carts outside a Walmart Supercenter in Kilmarnock, Va., on January 13, 2009. (The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Thousands of people turned out Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009, for a federal government job fair at the Atlanta Federal Center (the old Rich's building) in downtown Atlanta. The fair, sponsored by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Atlanta District), was for jobs with federal agencies such as Justice, Labor, Commerce, Social Security, FBI, and Food and Drug, just to name a few. (AP Photo/The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Rich Addicks)

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We're making it needlessly difficult for Americans to save and invest. That hurts job growth and depresses wages. (Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)

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Passengers board an Amtrak Acela train bound for New York at Union Station in Washington in 2008. (The Washington Times)

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An estimated 1,200 undocumented migrants daily cross the Limpopo River, South Africa's equivalent of the Rio Grande separating the U.S. and Mexico. Most are from Zimbabwe, where shortages of food and fuel and an unemployment rate of more than 80% have sparked a steady exodus to the more stable and more prosperous South Africa. (Getty Images/File)

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Columbia University students line up to speak with Roberto Amorosino, bottom left, of the World Bank about possible employment opportunities during a career fair at the school Friday, Nov. 7, 2008, in New York. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Taj Mahal hotel employees comfort each other after being rescued. A group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attacks. (Associated Press)

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The American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State claim the Central Mission requires the homeless to participate in Christian religious activity.

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NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON The Continental Congress included among American grievances that King George III (in coronation robes) hired mercenaries.

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**FILE** A Harper's Weekly drawing shows cadets from The Citadel firing on Star of the West, thought to have been reinforcing the Union garrison at Fort Sumter, on Jan. 9, 1861.

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The J. Edgar Hoover Building, which opened to employees in 1974, dominates the nighttime cityscape on Pennyslvania Avenue NW. ** FILE **

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E. Donald Hughes is one of the last members of the first African-American labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. His mother, Inell Hughes, was married to a porter.

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said her campaign received a "flood" of calls about voter intimidation among Culinary Workers Union members in Nevada. "The evidence is pretty compelling," she said.