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My name is mark trumbull, economy editor of the Christian Science monitor. Welcome to our guests. Todays guest is liz schuler of the aflcio. She is the president of the Labor Federation and we are very glad to have you with us again as another Labor Day Weekend rolls around. A little background, president schuler grew up in a union household. Her father was a power lineman and longtime member of the electrical workers local 125 at Portland General Electric in oregon. Her mother worked in the companys service and design department. Ms. Schuler attended the university of oregon and i might inser...

My name is mark trumbull, economy editor of the Christian Science monitor. Welcome to our guests. Todays guest is liz schuler of the aflcio. She is the president of the Labor Federation and we are very glad to have you with us again as another Labor Day Weekend rolls around. A little background, president schuler grew up in a union household. Her father was a power lineman and longtime member of the electrical workers local 125 at Portland General Electric in oregon. Her mother worked in the companys service and design department. Ms. Schuler attended the university of oregon and i might inser...

I appreciate this conference so much. Marc and joanne formed a long time ago. Ive been helping out since 2002. I find this is one of the greatest meetings of the mind ever conceived when you go from a session on confucius versus saint Thomas Aquinas to a debate between gold and bitcoins in l. A. Debate on minimum wage. We are covering the waterfront in this conference. The debate before is now one of i believe seven to 10 debates of oneonone debates. I kind of think of these in terms of the old william f. Buckleys firing line. Does anybody remember those on tv . Somebody cue the trumpet fanfar...

Agriculture issues, but talk about what it was to be an american, what it was like to be free and experience the types of opportunities that we have in america. So i understand why families want to come to the United States and experience that American Dream. But we are a nation of immigrants, and we are also a nation of laws. So we do need to enforce the existing laws, but i believe we also need to secure the border. That needs to be done first. I see it as more than just an immigration issue, but also one of National Security. Weve had lengthy questions here. Ill give you a real brief questi...

Industry, with their bureau of labor statistics, and others, than ever before to understand with precision the needs of employers in granular detail. And then making sure that we design programs to meet those precise needs so that people can punch their ticket to the middle class, and employers can grow their businesses. When people ask him hey, tom, what do do for a living, this is what i told him. The department of labor is match. Com. What we do is help make a connection, just the right fit. Between ready to work americans, who want to punch their ticket to the middle class, and jobs and em...