Hilda L. Solis: “We believe that PLAs actually help to bring down the costs and provide conformity.”

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

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…

We have created 1.1 million private-sector jobs. I am not talking about public sector; I am talking about private sector.

But we must do it in a way that protects the recovery, protects the investments we need to grow, create jobs, and helps us win the future.