Hilda L. Solis

Job Corps program has a long history of preparing disadvantaged youth for a successful transition into the workforce.

I have the highest regard for our professional staff at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, highly trained, highly skilled Ph.D.s, economists, statisticians, folks that have been working in this area for many years. And this is a methodology…

I believe that programs and policies of the Department of Labor are making a difference in American lives.

To create an economy that is built to last President Obama has laid out a blueprint that emphasizes strengthening American manufacturing.

However, you and I know we still have a lot more work to do because we realize there are 12.8 million people that are still looking for work.

Since I last came here and testified before you more than a year ago many economic indicators show we are moving on a path to long-term economic recovery.

He indeed was a true champion for working people and did so much to improve our nation's workforce.

At stake is the very survival of the basic American promise that if you work hard, you can do well enough to raise a family, own a home and put enough away for retirement.

As the President said in the State of the Union Address, we must renew our commitment to revitalizing our Nation's economy and to building an America that is built to last--where everyone gets a fair shot, does their fair share, and plays…

As the President said in the State of the Union Address, we must renew our commitment to revitalizing our Nation's economy and to building an America that is built to last--where everyone gets a fair shot, does their fair share, and plays…

I do feel that it is important for this country to have a solid middle class.

I agree with you that we need to have better trade agreements that are fair, and I look forward to encouraging the manufacturing base here to grow and be robust.

There is no more important issue facing our country today than shoring up the embattled middle class.

We need to preserve the middle class by continuing extended unemployment benefits.

His story gives me hope that we can meet this challenge head on and help people with disabilities move into and beyond the middle class.

We need to do better, and I am pleased to be working with employers to help grow the size of the disability labor force to six million by 2015.

What we are trying to get at here is that those businesses and employers that misuse the system are actually hurting our economy

Having a job is essential to being a part of the middle class.

They're not asking for a handout. They're asking for a hand up, an ability to be able to work in different employment situations.

We must come together, reduce our deficit, and get back on a path that will allow us to pay down our debt.

What has not changed is the desire of the American public, and that is for us to work together to address the challenges facing working-class people

There is broad agreement that the Federal Government has to start living within its means.

We have to make those investments that will allow our future to prosper by out-innovating out-competing, out-educating

The administration is committed to making the tough cuts necessary to achieve these savings--including to programs we care about--but will not sacrifice the core investments we need to grow and create jobs.