Author: Hilda Solis

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I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area.

I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area.

- Hilda Solis

We need women to go through apprentice programs. I've seen women who did, and who are now highly trained electricians and welders. These are jobs that women are capable of doing.

We need women to go through apprentice programs. I've seen women who did, and who are now highly trained electricians and welders. These are jobs that women are capable of doing.

- Hilda Solis

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

- Hilda Solis

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

- Hilda Solis

I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.

I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.

- Hilda Solis

The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.

The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.

- Hilda Solis

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