“We have a lot of employers who are looking for skilled workers and not...” — Elaine Chao Quote

We have a lot of employers who are looking for skilled workers and not being able to find them. And we have workers who lack the requisite skills to access these good-paying jobs in high growth industries.

The borrow-spend-and-centralize agenda that has been so destructive to job creation elsewhere in America has been a gravy boat inside the Beltway.

The greatest job creation is driven by entrepreneurs and young businesses, so they merit special attention.

When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.

Three years after the four deepest previous recessions began - in 1953, 1957, 1973 and 1981 - employment was on average 4.7% higher than the pre-recession peak.

People don't say they're pregnant until the second trimester. I intellectually understand that you don't want the whole world to know your business, but at the same time, what does that mean? You don't tell your employers you're pregnant, but then when you miscarry, no one knows you miscarried. Miscarrying is a horrible, painful event.

I have campaigned for a higher minimum wage, and more employers should be paying a proper living wage.

We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.

Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.