Hilda L. Solis: “We have created 1.1 million private-sector jobs. I am not talking about public sector; I am talking about private…”

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.

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…

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

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.