WASHINGTON (AP) – Labor Secretary Tom Perez sought Monday to re-energize President Barack Obama’s stalled push for raising the minimum wage from $7.50 to $10.10 an hour and for making paid leave for mothers of newborns more widely available.
Speaking at the National Press Club, Perez also suggested that U.S. workers generally have failed to benefit from the nation’s economic recovery.
“Nobody wins unless everybody wins,” he said.
He also said he does not think voter fraud is that big a problem.
“As we prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, I do not believe the enduring voting issue…is in-person voter fraud,” he said, referring to the March 7, 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, when many activists were clubbed and received severe beatings.