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U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson speaks in support of President Bush's Social Security reform plan in St. Louis on April 27, 2005. (UPI Photo/Bill Greenblatt)

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