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fund ends any quarter with a balance of less than $11 million. A surcharge was imposed in 2009 when high unemployment drained the fund, but it was removed about a year later.
• Because of declining unemployment, the trust fund is expected to end this year with a balance of $52 million.
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Shepard, others talk about civil rights in SD
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Assistant U.S. Attorney General Tom Perez said he often gets asked why the U.S. Department of Justice still needs a civil rights divi

sion, and he wishes he spent his days sitting around waiting for calls like the Maytag repairman from television ads.
• But Perez said "the phone is ringing off the hook" with reports of hate crimes, human trafficking, lending biases, discrimination against people with disabilities and bullying.
• "These aren't stories of the '60s and the '50s," he said. "These are stories of today."
• Perez joined several other panelists Monday af

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