department of labor
Some analysts are guessing that Obama, while he won't utter the words "immigration reform" in the same breath, might be more willing to tackle the issue one piece at a time.
What gives some in the GOP the real jitters though is not the message as much as the messenger. Solis wears her working class roots on her blue collared shirt sleeve.
In 2005, California Congresswoman Hilda Solis contributed $15,000 of her own campaign money to fund a successful movement to raise the minimum wage in California.
Rep. Solis has been forced to wait and watch while a few Republican Senators try to make political hay of her husband's small business tax woes.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
New changes to the guestworker program proposed by the Bush administration would reduce protections and contravene decades of lessons learned about temporary worker programs.
Monday, April 28, is one day set aside to concentrate on saving workers' lives. It is an occasion on which we mourn the dead and strive for better conditions for the living.