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Support Your Local Merchants Saturday and “Shop Small”
Hard-working small business owners—and their employees—have weathered a recession, the credit crunch, growing foreign competition and natural disasters to keep their doors open and our recovery moving....
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One Step Closer to a World Free of AIDS
On World AIDS Day, we reflect on friends and family members we have lost since the emergence of this pandemic more than 30 years ago. And while an encouraging United Nations report reveals the positive...
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Economic Recovery Remains on the Right Trajectory
Our nation added 146,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in November, while the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, its lowest level since December 2008. November’s jobs report means we’ve now seen 33 straight...
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New DOL-SBA Website Encourages Entrepreneurship
Senator Ron Wyden (left), a long-time champion of Self-Employment Assistance programs, meets Oregon entrepreneurs, including the founders Urban Airship to discuss SEA. The entrepreneurial spirit is...
View ArticleOnline Tool to Help Businesses Fight Child and Forced Labor
Around the world, roughly 215 million children toil in child labor; another 21 million people are trapped in forced labor. If these groups represented a single nation, it would be the fifth largest in...
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Responding to Hurricane Sandy
Solis takes in the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in Staten Island. In the weeks since Hurricane Sandy swept onto shore and left a path of destruction along the East Coast, we’ve witnessed the...
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2012: A Strong Year of Consistent Growth
For nearly three years, steady gains have occurred across different sectors of the economy. Today’s jobs report marks 34 straight months of private sector job growth, which have added close to 5.8...
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#DOL100: Join the Conversation on Twitter
Then. Now. Next. The U.S. Labor Department has touched families and lives across the country for nearly one hundred years. From infancy, we ensure that working parents can care for newborns under the...
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Today, We Serve
Solis holds the National Day of Service #iserve poster What inspires us to serve? What is it about our national character that makes service to others such an essential part of what unites us as a...
View ArticleBeginnings and Endings: My Journey of Public Service
It has been an honor to be your secretary of labor. Today, as I prepared to say farewell, I decided that I wanted to share my experience through journeys, and through beginnings and endings, because...
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