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Erika Neal&apos’s salary as assistant director of The Griot Museum of Black History, where she is seen August 23, 2013 in St. Louis, Missouri, had been cut by 75 percent and job-based health coverage eliminated. As an adult with no chldren, she and apos’s also ineligible for Medicaid. (Sid Hastings/MCT)