Income Taxes	3 Months Ended
Apr. 02, 2017
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
Income Taxes	Income Taxes Income tax expense for the first quarter of both 2017 and 2016 was $2.7 million. Our tax expense is affected by recurring items, such as the amount of pretax income and its mix by jurisdiction, U.S. work opportunity credits and the change in cash surrender value of non-taxable investments in life insurance policies. It is also affected by discrete items that may occur in any given period but are not consistent from period to period, such as tax law changes, or changes in judgment regarding the realizability of deferred tax assets. There could be an income tax benefit from a valuation allowance release of approximately $6 million in the near term if future taxable income is sufficient to make it more likely than not that deferred tax assets will be realizable in those jurisdictions.

Income Taxes

3 Months Ended

Apr. 02, 2017

Income tax expense for the first quarter of both 2017 and 2016 was $2.7 million. Our tax expense is affected by recurring items, such as the amount of pretax income and its mix by jurisdiction, U.S. work opportunity credits and the change in cash surrender value of non-taxable investments in life insurance policies. It is also affected by discrete items that may occur in any given period but are not consistent from period to period, such as tax law changes, or changes in judgment regarding the realizability of deferred tax assets. There could be an income tax benefit from a valuation allowance release of approximately $6 million in the near term if future taxable income is sufficient to make it more likely than not that deferred tax assets will be realizable in those jurisdictions.