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FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2014, file photo, protesters participate in a rally on Chicago's south side as labor organizers escalate their campaign raise the minimum wage for employees to $15 an hour. Amid a national push by unions and worker advocates for a $15 minimum wage, Illinois Democrats hope to pass an ambitious hike during the spring legislative session, despite a warning from Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner that he opposes an increase of any kind. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 members gather at the Prince George's County Council meeting before presenting a "Fund It, Fix It and Make It Fair" Metro proposal. (Sarah Nelson/The Washington Times) **FILE**
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Pence hires lawyer (Illustration by Gary Varvel for Creators Syndicate)
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Construction workers work high atop a building under construction, Thursday, June 15, 2017, in Austin, Texas. A national immigration crackdown has fueled workforce shortages as people in the country illegally abandon jobs in many sectors of the economy, from hanging drywall for booming construction businesses in Texas to working the fields at Oregon wineries. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**
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President Donald Trump accompanied by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, right, speaks at a workforce development roundtable at Waukesha County Technical College in Pewaukee, Wis., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 15, 2017, during an event on Apprenticeship and Workforce of Tomorrow initiatives. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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President Donald Trump speaks about the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scales of La. at a baseball practice, Thursday, June 15, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington before the start of an event on Apprenticeship and Workforce of Tomorrow initiatives. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 15, 2017, during an event on Apprenticeship and Workforce of Tomorrow initiatives. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer waits for the start of an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 15, 2017, with President Donald Trump on Apprenticeship and Workforce of Tomorrow initiatives. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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This undated photo provided by North Royalton Police Department shows George Brinkman Jr. Police in the Cleveland suburb of North Royalton Brinkman was charged Wednesday, June 14, 2017, in the deaths of a mother and her two college-age daughters. Brinkman was charged Tuesday with murder in the slayings of his employers, Rogell Eugene John and Roberta Ray John. (North Royalton Police Department via AP)
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This photo provided by Jerry Zakatchenko shows the scene at a UPS package delivery warehouse where a shooting took place Wednesday, June 14, 2017, in San Francisco, Calif. A UPS employee opened fire at one of the company's package delivery facilities in San Francisco on Wednesday, killing a few co-workers and then himself as officers closed in and workers ran frantically into the streets, police and company officials said. (Jerry Zakatchenko via AP)
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Bodies lie under a yellow tarp as police investigate the scene where a UPS employee opened fire at one of the company's package delivery facilities in San Francisco on Wednesday, June 14, 2017, killing three co-workers and then himself. (Amos Gregory via AP)
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In this photo provided by Kevin Wood, UPS workers wave from the rooftop of a UPS package delivery warehouse where a shooting took place Wednesday, June 14, 2017, in San Francisco, Calif. A UPS spokesman said several people were injured in the shooting at the facility and that the shooter was an employee. (Kevin Wood via AP)
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FILE - In this 1997 file photo, Al Yeganeh poses for a photograph outside his business, Soup Kitchen International, in New York. The company that sells soup made with Yeganeh's recipes has filed for bankruptcy less than a month after its chief financial officer was arrested on charges of cheating the government out of employment-related taxes. Yeganeh was the inspiration for the "Soup Nazi" character on "Seinfeld" (AP Photo/Michael Schmelling, File)
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UPS workers gather outside a UPS package delivery warehouse where a shooting took place Wednesday, June 14, 2017, in San Francisco. A UPS spokesman says four people were injured in the shooting at the facility and that the shooter was an employee. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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UPS workers gather outside a UPS package delivery warehouse where a shooting took place Wednesday, June 14, 2017, in San Francisco. A UPS spokesman says four people were injured in the shooting at the facility and that the shooter was an employee. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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A UPS employee fatally shot three people before killing himself at a San Francisco facility Wednesday. (NBC Bay Area)
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In this March 30, 2016 photo, Mildred Musni, right, breast feeds her son Eliseo and is joined by other mothers in protest at the main entrance of the city Human Services Agency in San Francisco. Months before the protest, Musni was forced to cover up by a security guard when she attempted to feed Eliseo inside the facility. With Musni are her older daughter Sentia, left, and step-daughter Vanessa Trujillo, right. Every employer in San Francisco will have to provide a safe and clean room with a surface, chair and electrical outlet where new moms can pump milk under a proposal pending before city supervisors Tuesday, June 13, 2017. (Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
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President Donald Trump listens as his daughter, Ivanka Trump, speaks at a workforce development roundtable at Waukesha County Technical College in Pewaukee, Wis., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
