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Tom Perez
American
Politician
Born:
Oct 7
,
1961
Class
Me
Opportunity
People
Work
You
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Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers' grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation's character.
Tom Perez
Day
Strength
Character
Gratitude
Women
Prosperity
Opportunity
Labor Day
Collective
Men
Men And Women
Year
Nation
Dedication
Our
Define
Recognize
Invaluable
Gives
Economy
Make
Labor
Contributions
Which
Ingenuity
Grit
Us
Workers
Working
Show
Each
Each Year
Chance
Trust is not something that's given because you win an election; it's something you have to earn.
Tom Perez
You
Trust
Win
Election
Earn
Something
Given
Because
Public service has allowed me to put values my parents taught me into action.
Tom Perez
Service
Me
Values
Parents
Action
Allowed
Put
Taught
Public
Public Service
I believe the passage of a national paid family and medical leave law is not a question of if, but when. But as is so often the case on important public policy issues, we need states and localities to be the incubators of innovation.
Tom Perez
Family
Innovation
Law
Important
National
Believe
States
Case
Policy
Policy Issues
Passage
Leave
Issues
Question
Often
Public
Paid
Public Policy
Medical
Need
Donald Trump has shown no interest in working toward increasing the minimum wage, no interest in doing anything but immigrant baiting, no interest in doing anything but filling the swamp with a band of billionaires who are simply trying to help the wealthy.
Tom Perez
Band
Increasing
Immigrant
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Wealthy
No Interest
Simply
Toward
Wage
Doing
Trump
Trying
Donald
Donald Trump
Anything
Interest
Swamp
Working
Help
Who
Billionaires
Shown
Filling
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.
Tom Perez
You
Liberty
Took
Tell
Protecting
Make
Sure
Were
Trump
America
Donald
Donald Trump
Where
Lady
Want
Grandchildren
Them
Ask
Dr. King's last campaign was a labor struggle. Many people are aware that King was assassinated in Memphis in the spring of 1968. Less well-known is what drew him there: solidarity with city sanitation workers, who, without the benefit of union representation, were rising up to protest humiliating pay and deplorable working conditions.
Tom Perez
Struggle
People
King
Spring
Pay
Humiliating
Benefit
Solidarity
City
Memphis
Drew
Rising
Him
Protest
Without
Were
Conditions
Campaign
Up
Labor
Representation
Deplorable
Workers
Working
Sanitation
Less
Union
Who
Many
Aware
Dr
Last
Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.
Tom Perez
Endeavor
Organizing
I like to call the Department of Labor the Department of Opportunity, and that means opportunity for everyone - no matter whom you love.
Tom Perez
Love
You
Opportunity
Matter
Everyone
Like
Call
Labor
Department
Means
Whom
I've had jobs that allow me the flexibility to achieve work-life balance, to be there when one of the kids sinks a jump shot or for the parent-teacher meetings. I can move tasks around. If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.
Tom Perez
Me
Balance
Achieve
Back
Meetings
Kids
Jobs
Something
Allow
Had
Around
Go
Jump
Office
Get
Tasks
Done
Move
Afternoon
Shot
Flexibility
Evening
To realize President Obama's vision of opportunity for all, it's all about making the right match. The way we do that is through job-driven training - connecting ready-to-work Americans with ready to be-filled jobs. It helps more people secure a foothold in the middle class and helps businesses to profit and grow.
Tom Perez
Class
People
Training
Vision
Opportunity
Profit
President
Way
Secure
Jobs
Obama
About
More
More People
Through
Match
Ready
Making
American
Middle
Middle Class
Realize
Businesses
Connecting
Helps
Grow
Right
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.
Tom Perez
Woman
Earner
Typical
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Responsible
Running
Most
Likely
Household
Wage
Provider
Children
Paying
Bills
Raising
Raising Children
Employers have recognized for some time that it's smart business to have a diverse workforce - one in which many views are represented and everyone's talents are valued. Well, disability is part of diversity.
Tom Perez
Time
Business
Smart
Diversity
Everyone
Valued
Recognized
Some
Diverse
Disability
Part
Talents
Employers
Well
Which
Workforce
Views
Many
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.
Tom Perez
Day
Labor Day
Year
Marks
Years
Labor
America
Department
Workers
Working
Special
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.
Tom Perez
Me
Rights
Reality
Promise
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act
General
Allowed
Attorney
Attorney General
Make
Privilege
Role
Enforce
Act
Help
Serve
Assistant
From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges.
Tom Perez
Strong
Building
Community
Recognized
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Colleges
Outset
Partnerships
Robust
Infrastructure
Means
Skills
I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but the opposite is true. Unemployment Insurance serves as a powerful incentive for people to keep searching for jobs, rather than drop out of the labor force altogether.
Tom Perez
Work
People
Benefits
Argument
Drop
Looking
Out
Jobs
Somehow
Rather
Drop-Out
True
Powerful
Long-Term
Force
Altogether
Insurance
Opposite
Heard
Labor
Unemployed
Unemployment
Than
Unemployment Benefits
Act
Incentive
Searching
Keep
Serve
When you put more money in the pockets of working families, they spend it on groceries, gas, school supplies, and other goods and services. And that helps businesses grow and create jobs. So many forward-looking employers, large and small, understand this.
Tom Perez
You
Money
School
Other
Spend
Jobs
Pockets
More
Small
Put
Supplies
Goods
Employers
Understand
Families
Create
Groceries
Working
Working Families
Businesses
Forward-Looking
Large
Many
Helps
Grow
Gas
Services
Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
Tom Perez
Work
Service
Rights
Important
Members
Civil
Civil Rights
General
Part
Attorney
Attorney General
Protecting
Important Part
Assistant
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.
Tom Perez
Mistake
Conflict
Safety
Job
Creation
Believe
Job Creation
Must
Mutually
Mutually Exclusive
Exclusive
Making
Go
Hand-In-Hand
Regard
Inherently
If the opponents of an increase in the minimum wage were correct, then every time you fly to Seattle, you've got to bring a bagged lunch because there shouldn't be any restaurants because they should have all have gone out of business as a result of raising the minimum wage.
Tom Perez
Time
You
Business
Result
Fly
Gone
Every
Lunch
Increase
Every Time
Correct
Out
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Restaurants
Because
Got
Opponents
Wage
Were
Any
Then
Should
Seattle
Bring
Raising
Workers are baking the pie of prosperity, but they're not sharing in those dividends. That's unfair.
Tom Perez
Prosperity
Unfair
Those
Dividends
Sharing
Pie
Baking
Workers
Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.
Tom Perez
Too
Taking
Frequently
Falling
Been
Behind
Chin
Workers
Working
Working Hard
Hard
Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people.
Tom Perez
Work
People
Mandatory
Think
Arbitration
More
Clause
Detriment
Than
Often
Working
Working People
The employers who do best are employers who reject these false choices. It's not a zero-sum world where you either take care of your workers or you take care of your shareholders. You can do good and do well, too.
Tom Perez
Best
Good
You
World
Care
Too
Take
Take Care
Shareholders
Employers
Well
False
Where
Either
Workers
Choices
Your
Who
Zero-Sum
Reject
There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.
Tom Perez
Environmental
Good
You
Values
Myth
Earnings
Out
Promote
Altar
False
Sustainability
Either
Choice
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