Seth Harris: “He was, for me, as a New Jerseyan, he was like New Jersey. He was tenacious. He was audacious. He was progressive and…”

if we are able to raise wages across the board, particularly for low-wage and middle-skill workers, we are simply going to have more people spending more money.

We need to skill workers up so that they can compete for those high-wage, high-skill jobs, but that is difficult for a lot of workers.

So comp time is not like cash wages. If you pay somebody cash overtime they control how it is spent--the worker controls how it is spent.

I think the Paycheck Fairness Act would have to be included on that list because of the terrible wage gap.