{"id":647344,"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.media\/index\/647344","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 &#8212; you can make it if you try,&quot; President Obama said. &quot;And Tom has made protecting that promise &#8212; for everybody&nbsp; &#8212; the cause of his life.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The President reminded those gathered for the announcement of the three questions he believes all officials should ask themselves every day &#8212; 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? &#8212; 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>\n","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":7323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}