Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today to support the nomination of Mayor Marty Walsh to serve as Secretary of Labor. Across the country, working families are really desperate for help. Even before this pandemic, the deck was stacked against workers and especially against women, workers of color, and workers with disabilities, thanks to an unlivable Federal minimum wage and subminimum wage for tipped workers and workers with disabilities that do leave millions of workers struggling to make ends meet; a pay gap that makes getting by even harder for women, in particular, women of color; a lack of a national paid family, sick, and medical leave policy and quality, affordable childcare for working families; a failure to protect workers from pandemics and workplace accidents and harassment and discrimination and more; and a wave of job loss and economic uncertainty that is upending the lives of workers and retirees across our country. This pandemic has laid bare the painful fact that while our economy might work for the biggest corporations and wealthiest individuals, it isn't working for working families. And all of these challenges--unsafe workplaces, lost jobs, low wages--are even worse for people of color due to longstanding inequities that are rooted in systemic racism and are widening due to this pandemic. Our country cannot fully recover from this crisis unless we begin to change that by rebuilding a stronger, fairer economy.…”