"We saw increases in child labor violations last year."
"I work very closely with Katherine Tai."
"I think that if Congress is going to pass anything like that you need to talk to the mayors because that is where it is going to be carried out."
"It is no surprise to me that the black unemployment rate in this country is 5 percent."
"We have had usually the black unemployment rate is double that of the white unemployment rate in this country."
"I think some of the things that we can do is when we think about the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law..."
"We passed the $15 an hour minimum wage, Federal contracting minimum wage."
"We were able to lift that wage up to $15 an hour."
"The President has asked all of us to look to make sure that equity is embedded in everything that we do."
"Data tells the truth. If you don't have the data and you don't look at the data, it doesn't tell the truth."
"You don't need a stick. What you need to do is have conversations about equitable."
"I am certainly pleased to outline the Biden-Harris administration's priority for the Department of Labor's fiscal year 2023 budget."