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Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.
Frankly, what we need to be looking at is whether this election was rigged by Donald Trump and his buddy Vladimir Putin.
Of all the tough decisions in life, choosing between the job you need and the family you love should not be one of them.
Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
We have to have a conversation where we bring in all the stakeholders and say, 'What is the vision of the Democratic Party?'
With patience, persistence, and partnership, we can create economic opportunity for every person willing to work hard for it.
When the federal government imposes a mandate on the states or supersedes a state policy, conservatives often rise in protest.
If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.
Here's the reality: when Hillary Clinton won the nomination, the DNC handed her insufficient and substandard tools for success.
The differences between Secretary Clinton and Donald Trump in terms of temperament, in terms of values, couldn't be more stark.
If Donald Trump wants to acknowledge that we have a pay gap for women and we need to address it, I would work with Donald Trump.
A secure retirement is one of the pillars of middle class life. For all too many Americans, however, that pillar needs more support.
Costco pays their workers good wages with benefits while selling good products at competitive prices and remaining quite profitable.
It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.
Labor Day 2013 is special. This year marks the centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor - 100 years of working for America's workers.
I like to call the Department of Labor the Department of Opportunity, and that means opportunity for everyone - no matter whom you love.
Extending emergency unemployment benefits isn't just the right thing to do for our families - it's the smart thing to do for our economy.
As America prepared for war in 1941, discrimination largely shut black Americans out of job opportunities in the growing defense industry.
Workers are most likely to save for retirement if they have access to a workplace savings plan and are automatically enrolled in that plan.
I met a person on my rural tour in northwest Wisconsin who said to me, 'I feel politically homeless.' And we need to re-engage that person.
It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.
We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.
We're building a movement. It's undeniably a work in progress, but there's a fundamental desire to see capitalism to do something different.
When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.
The United States is one of the few nations on the planet where paid family and medical leave or earned sick time is not the law of the land.
Companies are recognizing that paid leave reduces training and turnover costs, that it's a formula for recruiting and retaining good workers.
Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable.
When you recruit good candidates and you have a good message and you have energy and organization and partnership, you always have a fighting chance.
During Black History Month, I'm reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil rights is interwoven with the struggle for workers' rights.
The Department of Labor's final conflict of interest rule will ensure that America's workers and retirees receive retirement advice in their best interest.
Donald Trump is a fraud. Listening to him talk about how he's going to put American first again, he's spent his entire career putting his own profits first.
The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.
Our message of opportunity and inclusion is, I think, a very powerful message that does indeed speak to Americans, but we've got to do a better job of listening.
From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges.
I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.
To reward work, to grow the middle class and strengthen the economy, to give millions of Americans the respect they deserve... It's time to raise the minimum wage.
When my grandchildren ask, 'Where were you when Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to Lady Liberty?' I want to make sure I can tell them I was there protecting America.
My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was a remarkable role model for all of us.
We have to bake labor provisions into the core of an agreement. TPP would do that. Under NAFTA, countries had to simply promise to uphold the laws of their own nations.
What you learn growing up in a place like Buffalo is that your job isn't just your paycheck, it's your identity. It doesn't just give you dollars, it gives you dignity.
Improving veterans' employment is an all-hands-on-deck enterprise. We work with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, with private sector partners and others.
Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.
I've got so much going on in my day job. And I've been around politics enough to know all the swirl that's fit to print, and so I focus on the reality of the here and now.
It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights Act and help make its promise a reality.
Misclassification means workers are denied not just minimum wage and overtime but other social safety net protections like workers' compensation and unemployment insurance.
My parents didn't feel that they had any choice but to leave the Dominican Republic. They did, however, choose to become Americans, and they lived American values every day.
I think public sector workers, our teachers, our firefighters, our home health workers who work for states, they do God's work. They are some of our most important employees.
Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.
When I travel around the country and talk about the need to raise the minimum wage or expand access to paid leave, I often talk about the need for us to reject false choices.
We need to do more to support working families, like guarantee access to paid sick and parental leave and make sure every parent has access to quality, affordable child care.