Her new office at the bottom of Capitol Hill is only a couple of blocks from where Solis served the previous eight years as a ...
Harris's first assignment as the department's top operations and management officer will be to rebuild morale after years of funding cuts and Bush administration neglect. ...
Kerr's first challenge as the department's chief manager will be hiring more than 1,500 people. "Diversity is important," he says, noting that he hopes to ...
Kennedy, 49, is a veteran of both Capitol Hill and the executive branch. With a political science degree from James Madison University, a University of ...
In Borzi, Obama gets an unquestioned expert, backed by organized labor but also respected by employers. She "wants to make sure that policy theories actually ...
Since 2006, Oates has served as executive director of the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education and as a senior policy adviser to Democratic Gov. ...
As a child, Martinez appeared on an episode of <em>Lassie</em> in a role she bristled at in real life: the exceptional blind girl who's singled ...
Spriggs, currently chairman of the economics department at Howard University, is "a broad economist," according to his graduate school office mate, Lawrence Mishel, now president ...
Jefferson personally understands the challenges that military veterans face in trying to find work. While training for the Army's Special Forces, he lost all five ...
Hall is an unabashed numbers guy. "I've always considered myself to be a data geek rather than a political person, even though I did work ...
Established: 1913
Address: 200 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20210
Phone: 866-487-2365
2009 Budget: $126.3 billion
Employment: 15,385
Web Site: www.dol.gov
Functions: The Labor Department administers and enforces statutes that promote the welfare of U.S. wage earners, improve their working conditions, and advance their opportunities for profitable employment. The department operates unemployment compensation systems; conducts job-training programs; regulates pension funds; enforces minimum-wage and other labor laws; and collects, analyzes, and publishes labor and economic statistics.
