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Illustration on the fallacious 1992 report claiming a 19 percent minimum wage increase in New Jersey raised the rate of fast food employment in that state by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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FILE - In this June 3, 2013 file photo, Nevada Sen. Greg Brower, R-Reno, speaks during Senate floor debate on the final day of the 77th Legislative session at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission determined earlier in 2017 that a former female prosecutor was subjected to sex discrimination and retaliation while Brower was in charge of the U.S. attorney’s office in Nevada. Brower is currently the FBI’s top liaison with Congress during its investigation in Russian election meddling.(AP Photo/Cathleen Allison, File)
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Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo chairs a plenary session entitled "The Workforce of Tomorrow" on the third day of the National Governors Association's meeting Saturday, July 15, 2017, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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Oklahoma Republican Gov. Mary Fallin addresses a plenary session entitled "The Workforce of Tomorrow" on the third day of the National Governors Association's meeting Saturday, July 15, 2017, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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Oklahoma Republican Gov. Mary Fallin and South Dakota Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard, left, laugh as Fallin addresses a plenary session entitled "The Workforce of Tomorrow" on the third day of the National Governors Association's meeting Saturday, July 15, 2017, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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FILE - This Oct. 3, 2013 file photo shows The Salk Institute, above the Pacific Ocean in San Diego. Vicki Lundblad and Katherine Jones, a pair of top scientists at the renowned research center has sued their employer in July 2017, alleging that they and other women have suffered long-term gender discrimination. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi,File)
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In this Wednesday, March 22, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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In a Friday, June 2, 2017 photo, peopel watch as goats from the landscaping company Munchers on Hooves graze on leaves and weeds near the Sindecuse Health Center on Western Michigan University's campus in Kalamazoo, Mich. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees local union has filed a grievance in response to Western Michigan University’s hiring of goats to clear 15 woodland acres on campus. (Carly Geraci/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)
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In a Friday, June 2, 2017 photo, goats from the landscaping company Munchers on Hooves graze on leaves and weeds near the Sindecuse Health Center on Western Michigan University's campus. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees local union has filed a grievance in response to Western Michigan University’s hiring of goats to clear 15 woodland acres on campus. (Carly Geraci/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)
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In a Friday, June 2, 2017 photo, goats from the landscaping company Munchers on Hooves graze on leaves and weeds near the Sindecuse Health Center on Western Michigan University's campus. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees local union has filed a grievance in response to Western Michigan University’s hiring of goats to clear 15 woodland acres on campus. (Carly Geraci | Mlive.com)/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)
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City of Elgin, Ill., public works employees work to clear drains Wednesday morning, July 12, 2017, after drenching rains caused flooding in streets and homes. (Rick West/Daily Herald via AP)
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a key opponent of the Republican health care bill, arrives for weekly policy meetings on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 11, 2017. With at least a dozen Republicans opposing or challenging parts of the GOP health care bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he will unveil their revised health care bill Thursday and begin voting on it next week. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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In this Wednesday, May 31, 2017, photo, William Gadea, founder and creative director of IdeaRocket LLC, an animated video company, poses for a portrait in his office in New York. A growing number of small businesses are combining employees’ vacation and sick time into one bucket called paid time off, or PTO. For Gadea, offering PTO to his five staffers means he doesn’t have to be the arbiter of whether someone is really sick when they call him in the morning, coughing and asking for a day off. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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President Trump pressed Congress to pass his health care bill before leaving for August recess. (Associated Press)
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FILE - This May 18, 2016 file photo shows the Presbyterian Healthcare Services administrative center in Albuquerque, N.M. New Mexico's top prosecutor is suing one of the state's largest health care providers over allegations that it falsified deductions and credits through the Medicaid program and as a result evaded tens of millions of dollars in premium taxes and surcharges. State Attorney General Hector Balderas on Tuesday, July 11, 2017., filed a lawsuit against Presbyterian Health Plan, Inc. and Presbyterian Healthcare Services. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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The Rev. Isiac Jackson of the Mississippi Alliance for Fairness at Nissan discusses his group's support of the United Auto Workers union at Nissan Motor Co.'s assembly plant during a Tuesday, July 11, 2017, rally at the UAW office near the plant in Canton, Miss. Workers filed petitions Monday with the National Labor Relations Board. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)
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Bishop Thomas Jenkins discusses his group's support of the United Auto Workers union at Nissan Motor Co.'s assembly plant during a Tuesday, July 11, 2017, rally at the UAW office near the plant in Canton, Miss. Workers filed petitions Monday with the National Labor Relations Board. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)
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In this June 8, 2017 photo, the Rev. Michael Kirkland poses for a photo in Delaware, Ohio. When Kirkland lost his insurance job eight years ago, he started a bail bonds operation from his car in Delaware. After two years, he found a storefront and the first thing he added was a chapel. (Tom Dodge/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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Employees work at their stations at the Target Technology Innovation Center office in San Francisco. At a 21 percent turnover rate last year, millennials were three times more likely than nonmillennials to report changing jobs, and 60 percent said they were currently open to a change in employment, more than 15 points higher than nonmillennials. (Associated Press)
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FILE-In this March 4, 2017, file photo, UAW president Dennis Williams calls for auto workers to demand their rights during a speech before thousands gathered at a pro-union rally near Nissan Motor Co.'s Canton, Miss., plant. The United Auto Workers filed Monday, July 10, 2017, an election petition with the National Labor Relations Board, to force a unionization election at the plant following years-long pressure campaign to build support. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
