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Jared Bernstein »
Director
Living Standards Program
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Diana Furchtgott-Roth »
Senior Fellow
Center for Employment Policy
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The House Education and Labor Committee held a hearing on Tuesday, July 15 to examine the U.S. Department of Labor's record of enforcing the nation's wage and hour laws. The Government Accountability Office highlighted the results of two separate investigations requested by the chairman of the committee, U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), into the Labor Department’s failures to fully investigate and properly address violations of the law.
Seventy years ago last month, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the landmark Fair Labor Standards Act into law. The law has provided generations of Americans with basic rights to minimum wages, overtime pay, and a ban on oppressive child labor. However, critics say that the Bush administration has failed to protect workers from a growing problem of "wage theft" by adopting weak approaches to enforcement and reducing funding and staffing levels of the Wage and Hour Division, the agency responsible for investigating complaints of wage, hour, and child labor violations.
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William L. Carlson, Ph.D. »
Administrator
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Employment and Training Administration
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Dr. Andrew Sum »
Director/Professor
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The Honorable Pat Schroeder »
Former U.S. Representative (D-CO)
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Matthew H. Scanlan »
Managing Director
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Jessica Perdew »
Deputy Director
Government Relations National Military Family Association Alexandria, Virginia - Christine Vion-Gillespie » Society of Human Resource Management Cary, North Carolina
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Dr. Evelyn Murphy »
President
WAGE Project, Inc.
Resident Scholar Women’s Research Center
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Former First Lady of the United States
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Son of Former U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone
Co-Founder
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