Hilda L. Solis: “Now, more than ever, we must work together to ensure that all Americans have the same opportunities that I had.”

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.

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…

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

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.