"Many of them it's their second or third job. So this only makes sense in the care's economy."
"At this point in 2021 there's no reason why we don't have better technology to be able to make sure that workers are safe when they go mining."
"I think that we have, as you said, eight million people out of work, going to be looking for work. I can't imagine eight million people saying OK, I'd rather sit home and collect unemployment and don'..."
"The President tasked myself and for other cabinet secretaries to work on the American Jobs Plan. We need to make sure that people were working in safe working conditions."
"The President has been very clear on that issue of the Pro Act, making sure that that passes to give people an opportunity. If they want to join a union, they can join the union without disruption, wi..."
"This is all about the middle class. This isn't just about labor unions. This is about creating opportunities to build the middle class and allow people to get into a middle class that quite honestly, ..."
"This is about the American people. It's about the American economy. It's about forward-looking plan."
"We are at an inflection point in our Nation's history right now. We are coming out... of a pandemic that has taken over 600,000 American lives."
"We need to build back better. That means putting workers at the center of a more resilient, more inclusive, and ultimately more competitive economy as a country."
"The President and Congress worked together to pass the American Rescue Plan. It changed the course of the pandemic."
"If I do anything as Secretary of Labor, it is making sure that the money in the workforce development grants, in the apprenticeship program, money that we get, we get out in the street because that, t..."
"It`s about jobs. There`s no question about it."