Hilda L. Solis: “Workers and their families are hurting in these tough economic times.”

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…

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.

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.

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