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FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2016 file photo, Conor McGregor holds up his title belts after he defeated Eddie Alvarez during a lightweight title mixed martial arts bout at UFC 205, at Madison Square Garden in New York. The year 2016 saw New York raise the minimum wage and extend paid family leave while state officials confronted yet another corruption scandal. Lawmakers also voted to regulate daily fantasy sports, legalize mixed martial arts and repeal a particularly unpopular tax. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

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FILE - In this March 15, 2016 file photo, the state Capitol provides a backdrop as supporters of a $15 minimum wage rally at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, N.Y. The year 2016 saw New York raise the minimum wage and extend paid family leave while state officials confronted yet another corruption scandal. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

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Curtis Evermore poses for a photo Longview, Wash. Everman, 59, has developmental disabilities and gets help finding employment from Life Works, a Longview-based social services organization that supports people with mental and physical disabilities. (Bill Wagner/The Daily News via AP)

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Devastating regulations and market shifts to more economical energy sources have reduced the number of coal miners in the U.S. to about 54,000, according to the latest Labor Department figures. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this July 22, 2015 file photo, supporters of a $15 minimum wage for fast food workers rally in front of a McDonald's in Albany, N.Y. Millions of workers across the U.S. will see their pay increase as 19 states bump up their minimum wages as the new year begins. California, New York and Arizona are among the states with increases taking effect Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016 or Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. New York state is taking a regional approach, with the wage rising to $11 in New York City, $10 in its suburbs and $9.70 upstate. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

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FILE- In this April 4, 2016 file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs a law that will gradually raise New York's minimum wage to $15, at the Javits Convention Center, in New York. New York joins 18 other states by raising its minimum wage in 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool, File)

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Eric C. Conn used these law offices in Stanville, Kentucky, to commit one of the biggest Social Security disability fraud cases in U.S. history. (Associated Press/File)

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The Death of the Soviet Union Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, Auguste Augustin, a "bayakou", or human waste cleaner, and his crew, haul away sacks of human waste, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Some of the bayakou, who are nocturnal workers, are hired by sanitation companies. But most are independent operators who empty into drainage canals in violation of the law, creating ideal conditions for the spread of cholera and other diseases. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has called for all African Union members to quit the court en masse. (Associated Press)

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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)