{"id":742259,"date":"2013-03-18T13:11:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=0a470d92135f0f4a9903d68b314a22d2"},"modified":"2013-03-18T13:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:11:35","slug":"president-obama-nominates-thomas-perez-for-secretary-of-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/742259","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Nominates Thomas Perez for Secretary of Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama today&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/03\/18\/remarks-president-announcing-nomination-thomas-perez-secretary-labor\">announced that he has chosen&nbsp;Thomas Perez, the head of the U.S. Justice Department&rsquo;s Civil Rights Division, to be the next Secretary of Labor<\/a>. Speaking in the East Room of the White House, the President introduced Perez, the son of Dominican immigrants and a lawyer who&nbsp;helped pay his way through college by working as a garbage collector, to the American people.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;His story reminds us of this country&rsquo;s promise, that if you&rsquo;re willing to work hard, it doesn&rsquo;t matter who you are, where you come from, what your last name is -- you can make it if you try,&quot; President Obama said. &quot;And Tom has made protecting that promise -- for everybody&nbsp; -- the cause of his life.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The President reminded those gathered for the announcement of the three questions he believes all officials should ask themselves every day -- How do we make sure America is a magnet for good jobs?&nbsp; How do we equip people with the skills they need to get those jobs?&nbsp;And how do we make sure that hard work actually pays off in a decent living? -- and said that Perez has already shown his commitment to answering those questions in his work at the Justice Department, where he&nbsp;fought to open pathways into the workforce for everyone willing to contribute and&nbsp;helped settle some of the largest cases ever on behalf of families targeted by unfair mortgage lending.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/18\/president-obama-nominates-thomas-perez-secretary-labor\" >read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama today&nbsp;announced that he has chosen&nbsp;Thomas Perez, the head of the U.S. Justice Department&rsquo;s Civil Rights Division, to be the next Secretary of Labor. Speaking in the East Room of the White House, the President introduced Perez, the son of Dominican immigrants and a lawyer who&nbsp;helped pay his way through college by working as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-375V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}