There should be an immediate moratorium on federal regulations that endanger jobs.

Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population growth.

Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America's poorest the hardest.

I'm the first secretary of labor in the 21st century, and the competitiveness of the American work force and the modernization of decades-old regulations have been among our top priorities.

The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth.

Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some businesses suffer or fail and lay off workers. But nearly always, a simultaneous and even greater burst of new jobs has been created to offset the jobs lost - millions of new jobs every year.