Hilda Solis

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor.

The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.

Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you don't have a high level of training or education you're going to fall into that category.

At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.