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Minimum Wage Trap Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2016, file photo, a sign outside the Trump Taj Mahal announces the property's closing, in Atlantic City, N.J. The sprawling Boardwalk casino, with its soaring domes, minarets and towers built to mimic the famed Indian palace, shut down at 5:59 a.m., having failed to reach a deal with its union workers to restore health care and pension benefits that were taken away from them in bankruptcy court. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2016, file photo faculty member Angela Florschuetz, center, her colleagues, and their supporters picket at Cheyney University in Cheyney, Pa. Faculty who teach at the state's 14 public universities walked out for three days in October when contract talks stalled over wages, work load and health care. The strike, the first in the system's 34-year history, disrupted classes for 100,000 students. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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In this Dec. 20, 2016 photo, Mohamud Noor, executive director of the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota, poses for a photo at an employment center in Minneapolis' largest Somali neighborhood. Noor's organization created the center with grant money as part of a federal pilot project designed to combat terror recruitment by creating positive opportunities for youth. (AP Photo/Amy Forliti)
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In this Dec. 20, 2016 photo, several people use self-help computers at an employment center in the heart of Minneapolis' largest Somali neighborhood. The center, which connects job seekers to employers, was created with grant money as part of a federal pilot project designed to combat terror recruitment by creating positive opportunities for youth. (AP Photo/Amy Forliti)
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FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin speaks before the arrival of President-elect Donald Trump during the first stop of Trump's post-election tour in Cincinnati. With Republicans strengthening their grip on power in the November elections, Bevin said Republicans will pursue numerous “things that have been bottled up for years and need to at least have votes on them,” citing school choice measures and “reform” proposals for pension, tax and litigation laws, among others. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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In this Dec. 12, 2016, photo, Bill Spencer, center, holds an impromptu staff meeting at the Union 76 gas station in Creswell, Ore., where many of the employees are high school and college students earning money for school. (Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard via AP)
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This Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 booking photo released by Polk County Sheriff's office, Susan Ackerman at the Polk County Jail in Des Moines, Iowa. The former administrative law judge for Iowa Workforce Development has been charged with fraud for allegedly adding her ineligible daughter to her state insurance plan, in a case that her supporters are calling politically motivated. In 2014, Ackerman helped expose "perceived pressure" on judges to favor employers over jobless workers in disputes over unemployment benefits. (Polk County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at an annual meeting marking a professional holiday for Russian security service employees in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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In this Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 file photo, a bakery employee wheels doughnuts in Bnei Brak, Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
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In this Oct. 6, 2015, file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, file photo, members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, CalPERS listen to discussion about reinvesting in tobacco stocks in Sacramento, Calif. The board decided Monday to sell off its last $550 million worth of tobacco-related investments nearly two decades after trading away the bulk of them. California's largest pension system is downgrading its expectations for investment earnings, meaning government agencies will likely have to contribute more tax dollars to retirement benefits for public employees. The decision Wednesday, Dec. 21. 2016, by the CalPERS' board responds to long-term financial pressures and projections of lower returns on global investments over the next decade. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper, File)
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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, file photo, members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, CalPERS listen to discussion about reinvesting in tobacco stocks in Sacramento, Calif. California's largest pension system is downgrading its expectations for investment earnings, meaning government agencies will likely have to contribute more tax dollars to retirement benefits for public employees. The decision Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 by the CalPERS' board responds to long-term financial pressures and projections of lower returns on global investments over the next decade. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper, File)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, DEC. 25, 2016- In this Friday, Dec. 16, 2016 photo, prospects for employment in the oil field are beginning to have positive signs as indicated by this hiring sign in front of the Halliburton facility in Odessa, Texas. (Mark Sterkel/Odessa American via AP)
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FILE - In this July 20, 2016, file photo, Brian Poncin, of Chicago, a member of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union, Local 2858, holds a sign with images of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence during a rally at the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas in Las Vegas. Union officials announced Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, that workers at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas reached a contract with management after pushing for negotiations for a year, while management at a Trump hotel in Washington, D.C. has agreed to allow a unionization campaign at that property. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2016, file photo, Laborers' International Union of North America members and Culinary Union members protest outside of the Trump International hotel in Las Vegas. Union officials announced Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, that workers at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas reached a contract with management after pushing for negotiations for a year, while management at a Trump hotel in Washington, D.C. has agreed to allow a unionization campaign at that property. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
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Rhode Island Commerce Secretary Stefan Pryor, left, talks with A.T. Cross Co. CEO Robert Baird, right, at the opening of the company's new flagship store, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, in Providence, R.I. The state offered $1.9 million in incentives to help the 170-year-old pen maker expand its workforce and open a new corporate headquarters in Providence. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien)
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Smashburger co-founder and CEO Tom Ryan is apologizing after employees at an Aurora, Colorado, restaurant reportedly played N.W.A.'s hit song "F-- tha Police" on a loop while officers dined. (The Denver Channel)
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In this Monday, Nov. 28, 2016 photo, a Nepali migrant worker Krishna Bahadur Tamang, 32, carries his son before departing for Qatar at Tribhuwan Internation airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015. Yet the number of deaths among those workers has risen much faster in the same period. In total, over 5,000 workers from this small country have died working abroad since 2008, more than the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq War. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this Monday, Nov. 29, 2016 photo, a red coffin that brought home the body of Nepali migrant worker from Saudi Arabia, lies on the ground empty after cremation rituals were completed at Swayambhunath stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal. The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015. Yet the number of deaths among those workers has risen much faster in the same period. In total, over 5,000 workers from this small country have died working abroad since 2008, more than the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq War. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
