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Even dogs need to have experience to get a job

by Janet Nguyen

Feb 19, 2018

There's a lot of training that goes into becoming a working dog.

Patch, a service dog, picks up an arm strap with a stylus for his owner Annette Ramirez.

Courtesy Annette Ramirez

Wait times for Social Security benefit appeals leave people in limbo

by Peter Balonon-Rosen and Sean McHenry

Oct 20, 2017

Michael Astrue, a former Social Security commissioner, talks about how and where the backlog starts.

Michael Astrue, former Social Security Administration commissioner, says the backlog starts at the back end. That's where
“you're having a thousand-day waits.”

Alex Wong/Getty Images

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