Charles Rangel: “I think it is a successful conference because I think we emphasize how important it is for people to have jobs. We are…”

“I think it is a successful conference because I think we emphasize how important it is for people to have jobs. We are obsessed with the problems we get from immigrants, from unwanted children, from drugs, from crime and from violence. Yet education, job training and the opportunity to have hope for the future seems to have in great measure reduced these problems. The minimum wage just makes a lot of sense, and I am glad the American people just did not say no but insisted that at least we move this far forward. I also wanted to thank the Republicans for extending the targeted jobs credit, which means disabled people, veterans, those that come from poor families, those that are on welfare will be provided with incentives to get jobs by giving credits to employers who take this risk and who hire people. It is unfortunate that most of the moneys in this bill were raised just by cutting off economic development in Puerto Rico.”