City officials say they beat their goal of providing summer jobs and paid internships to 5,000 low-income or at-risk youth, rallying private firms and nonprofits to step up when proposed federal funding fell through.
“We filled in — the private sector, the nonprofit sector and The City departments,” Mayor Ed Lee said Tuesday about San Francisco’s Summer Jobs+ Initiative, part of the Obama administration’s national effort on youth employment.
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To set a good example of support for American workers, U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis traded her standard black limo for a new Chevrolet Equinox to ride around Washington, D.C. However, she was soon embarrassed to learn that America’s second-fastest-selling SUV crossover is entirely assembled in Canada. A Labor Department spokesman offered the excuse that “automobile manufacturing is a global industry” and “66 percent of its parts were made in America.”
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Opening a hearing on Capitol Hill on labor union financial transparency, House Education and Workforce subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) declared:
“Congress has a long-standing responsibility to shine a bright light on how the dues of union workers are being spent. In 2009, unions reported collecting more than $8 billion in workers’ dues. This figure alone highlights the importance of union transparency.”
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Labor Secretary Hilda Solis took part in a Communications Workers of America conference call Wednesday night in which she expressed her strong support for unions fighting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget. "Let's keep fighting," Solis told CWA president Larry Cohen and thousands of CWA shop stewards listening to the call.
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Thanks to his dogged insistence on prosecuting 9/11 conspirators in civilian courts and his refusal to prosecute the Philadelphia New Black Panther case, Attorney General Eric Holder has long appeared to us as President Barack Obama’s worst cabinet appointment. But based on her wholly inappropriate remarks at a recent Democratic National Committee gathering, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis is running a close second.
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Are you a financial adviser? You may not know it, but you've got a green job. Are you a wholesale buyer? You've got a green job, too. Or maybe you're a newspaper reporter. You, too, have a green job -- at least according to the Obama administration.
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Buried deep inside a federal newsletter on March 16 was something called a "notice of solicitation of comments" from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the Department of Labor.
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This really isn’t a big surprise, as Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis hinted it was coming.
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