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stamps and disability checks from Social Security and live with her parents in St. Louis.
• "I'm not proud of it," says Baebler, who is in her mid-30s and is blind. "The only way I'm able to sustain any semblance of self-preservation is to rely on government programs that I have no desire to be on."
• Baebler's frustrating experience has become all too common nearly four years after the Great Recession ended: Many Americans are still so discouraged that they've given up on the job market.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Sunday, April 7, the 97th day of 2013. There are 268 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On April 7, 1953, the U.N. General Assembly ratified Dag Hammarskjold (dahg HAWM'-ahr-shoold) of Sweden as the new secretary-general, succeeding Trygve Lie (TRIHG'-vuh lee) of Norway.
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• On this date:
• In 1788, an expedition led by Gen. Rufus Putnam established a settlement at present-day Marietta, Ohio.
• In 1798, the Mississippi Territory was created by an act of Congress, with Natchez as the capital.
• In 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
• In 1922, the Teapot Dome scandal began as Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall signed a secret deal to lease U.S. Navy petroleum reserves to his friends, oilmen Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny.
• In 1927, the image and voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover were transmitted live from Washington to New York in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.
• In 1939, Italy invaded Albania, which was annexed less than a week later.
• In 1949, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific" opened on Broadway.
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