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In this Tuesday, Dec 20, 2016 photo, Saro Kumari Mandal, 26, holds a cheque received as compensation from the Foreign Employment Promotion Board after her husband died as a migrant worker in Qatar, in Kathmandu, Nepal. She received $2,777 which she said she would use to open a small store in the village selling cookies and noodles, and also invest in a sewing machine. She wants to earn money for their son's education. "I want to make my son a teacher or a doctor when he grows up," she said. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this Tuesday, Dec 20, 2016 photo, Saro Kumari Mandal, 26, gives her fingerprint to receive compensation from the Foreign Employment Promotion Board after her husband died as a migrant worker in Qatar, in Kathmandu, Nepal. She received $2,777 which she said she would use to open a small store in the village selling cookies and noodles, and also invest in a sewing machine. She wants to earn money for their son's education. "I want to make my son a teacher or a doctor when he grows up," she said. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this photo taken on Monday, Dec 19, 2016, Saro Kumari Mandal, 26, sits with her son and her father-in-law at the Department of Foreign Employment to receive compensation after her husband died as a migrant worker in Qatar, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Eventually, with help, she received $2,777 from the Foreign Employment Promotion Board. She said she would use the money to open a small store in the village selling cookies and noodles, and also invest in a sewing machine. She wants to earn money for their son's education. "I want to make my son a teacher or a doctor when he grows up," she said. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this Nov. 23, 2016 photo, relatives and villagers carry the coffin of Balkisun Mandal Khatwe at Belhi village, Saptari district of Nepal. Balkisun, who had been working for Habtoor Leighton Group in Qatar for less than a month, died in his sleep. 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 Nov. 23, 2016 photo, a truck carrying the coffin of Balkisun Mandal Khatwe travels on a badly rutted road towards his village of Belhi, Saptari district of Nepal. Balkisun, who had been working for Habtoor Leighton Group in Qatar for less than a month, died in his sleep. 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 photo Nov 30, 2016 photo, a Nepalese woman carries her grandchild, whose father is working abroad as an unskilled laborer, in front of their home in Belhi village, in Saptari district, 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 Nov 25, 2016 photo, a Nepalese man shows his passport with a working permit at the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) 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. The unskilled workers fill a host of global demands: building highways, stadiums and houses in Gulf states and guarding shopping malls, sewing sweatshirts and assembling televisions in Malaysia. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 photo, Nepali workers stand in queues at the departure gate for migrant workers at Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. About 10 percent of Nepal's 28 million residents are working abroad. They send back more than $6 billion a year, amounting to about 30 percent of the country's annual revenues. Only Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan are more dependent on foreign earnings. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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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) **FILE**
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Claims examiner Penny Erney, who is undergoing chemotherapy, packs up her cubical at Office of Unemployment Compensation in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. Erney is one of about 500 workers at the state Department of Labor and Industry were spending their last day on the job Monday, before being laid off because of a funding dispute between the Wolf Administration and Senate Republicans. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Claims examiner Penny Erney, who is undergoing chemotherapy, packs up her cubical at Office of Unemployment Compensation in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. Erney is one of about 500 workers at the state Department of Labor and Industry were spending their last day on the job Monday, before being laid off because of a funding dispute between the Wolf Administration and Senate Republicans. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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ADVANCE FOR USE FRIDAY, DEC. 23, 2016 AND THEREAFTER-In this Sept. 8, 2015 photo provided by the White County, Ind., Sheriff's Department, a bus lies twisted and bent after running off Indiana 16 near Monon, Ind., with 20 migrant workers aboard. Officials say the Florida company that owns the bus had not properly insured it and did not have authority to transport workers. (AP Photo/White County Sheriff's Department)
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ADVANCE FOR USE FRIDAY, DEC. 23, 2016 AND THEREAFTER-In this July 15, 2016 photo, Maria Felix Martinez Chavez holds a photo of her late son, Jose Rangel Chavez, placed next to a lit candle on an altar in his honor in El Sabino, Mexico. Chavez went to the U.S. with legal permission as part of a guest worker program, with the goal to pay for his parents to build a more solid home, and dutifully wired money back whenever he could. The 22-year-old and five other workers were killed on Nov. 6 on a highway as they were returning to Mexico in a bus provided by their employer. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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In this Dec. 16, 2016 photo, Esperanza Villalobos, a "community navigator," works at her office at The Resurrection Project in Chicago. Villalobos helps immigrants who might need legal services to avoid deportation or learn about their legal rights. The organization she works for plans to hire more individuals like her after the city approved $1.3 million for a legal services fund for immigrants. Chicago is among several entities nationwide working to beef up legal services for immigrants. (AP Photo by Sophia Tareen)
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Sean Brune, assistant deputy commissioner at the Social Security Administration’s budget office, said they’re trying to become more aware of the problems and looking for new tools to fight back, but said he couldn’t guess at how bad the problem is. “I do not have a dollar amount of the general amount of fraud,” Mr. Brune told the House Ways and Means Committee. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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United States Steel CEO Mario Longhi said Wednesday that he would be "more than happy" to rehire laid-off employees now that Donald Trump has won the presidency. (CNBC)
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FILE - This Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, shows the HealthCare.gov 2017 website home page on display, in Washington. Health insurance experts say the decision to buy 2017 coverage on the Affordable Care Act’s public exchanges shouldn’t boil down to a gamble over the survival of the law, which requires most people to have insurance. Instead, customers should focus on whether they can handle the financial risk that comes with remaining uninsured while they wait for Trump’s health care plan to crystallize. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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FILE - In this June 14, 2005, file photo, former Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas Finneran, center, walks past members of the media as he enters federal court in Boston. The Mass. Supreme Judicial Court is set to hear arguments in a long-running dispute over whether Finneran should be able to receive his retirement pension despite his criminal conviction for obstruction of justice. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, the HealthCare.gov 2017 web site home page as seen in Washington. Only about one in four Americans wants President-elect Donald Trump to entirely repeal his predecessor’s health care law that extended coverage to millions, a new poll has found.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
