{"id":2831,"date":"2018-07-06T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/06\/dnc-chair-tom-perez-on-june-jobs-report\/"},"modified":"2018-07-06T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:36:00","slug":"dnc-chair-tom-perez-on-june-jobs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-tom-perez-on-june-jobs-report\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Chair Tom Perez on June Jobs Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"m_3806509287888597408gmail-docs-internal-guid-b6b4f6cb-6fee-12e6-0984-eb69ba175c93\">After the U.S. Department of Labor released the latest jobs and unemployment numbers, DNC Chair and former Labor Secretary Tom Perez released the following statement:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"m_3806509287888597408gmail-docs-internal-guid-b6b4f6cb-6fee-12e6-0984-eb69ba175c93\">&ldquo;With slow wage growth, rising health care premiums, and skyrocketing gas prices across the country, Donald Trump&rsquo;s reckless policies are hurting millions of hardworking families. Trump and Republicans in Congress have been so determined to undermine workers that they held a Supreme Court seat hostage for nearly a year in order to nominate an aggressively anti-union justice, who became the deciding vote in last week&rsquo;s disgraceful decision in the Janus case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"m_3806509287888597408gmail-docs-internal-guid-b6b4f6cb-6fee-12e6-0984-eb69ba175c93\">&ldquo;This is all part of the Republican playbook. For decades, Republicans and their wealthy corporate allies have been chipping away at workers&rsquo; rights, weakening unions, and depressing wages &ndash; all while giving massive tax cuts to the top 1%. And Janus is their most dangerous attack yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"m_3806509287888597408gmail-docs-internal-guid-b6b4f6cb-6fee-12e6-0984-eb69ba175c93\">&ldquo;Trump and Republicans in Congress are trying to build a winner-take-all economy that enriches their wealthy friends and saddles working families with the bill. Democrats want to create good-paying jobs and build an economy that works for everyone. And we will continue to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with workers and with our brothers and sisters in the labor movement as they&#8203; fight for the wages, benefits, and livelihood they deserve.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the U.S. Department of Labor released the latest jobs and unemployment numbers, DNC Chair and former Labor Secretary Tom Perez released the following statement: &nbsp; &ldquo;With slow wage growth, rising health care premiums, and skyrocketing gas prices across the country, Donald Trump&rsquo;s reckless policies are hurting millions of hardworking families. Trump and Republicans in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC Chair Tom Perez on June Jobs Report - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-tom-perez-on-june-jobs-report\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-07-06T14:36:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-tom-perez-on-june-jobs-report\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-tom-perez-on-june-jobs-report\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Chair Tom Perez on June Jobs Report - 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