Tom Perez Quotes

Clearly, apprenticeships are a win-win: They provide workers with sturdy rungs on that ladder of opportunity and employers with the skilled workers they need to grow their businesses. And yet in America, they've traditionally been an undervalued and underutilized tool in our nation's workforce development arsenal.

Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce.

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

Every job you do, you gain more experience. You never stop learning.

There are millions of women who are trapped in lower-paying jobs and don't have the skills for a higher-paying job, and don't have the money or the time to access the higher education that they need for a better job.

It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.

First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.

England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.

Most of the people we're depending on for our economic future will not graduate from college. It is time we empowered them instead of ignoring them.

We have middle skill jobs available, and high skill jobs available. There are no longer and unskilled jobs.

If you are willing to be a lifelong learner, you can be a lifelong employee.

We need to tell better stories of men and women who master a trade. We have to stop telling kids to blindly follow their passion and show them the opportunities that exist. That was the big, overarching message of 'Dirty Jobs.'

Tampa Electric has used apprenticeships since 1978 to make sure its workforce is the best in the business - trained, prepared, and productive. Apprenticeships improve its bottom line and give the company a competitive advantage.

For my family, for my loved ones, my priority is to have a job and perform.

There is still much work to be done to help our students secure good-paying jobs and achieve their ultimate goals, and in Congress, I'll continue to support Career and Technical Education programs.

I understand the challenge with student loans. But what about the labor force, the enlisted men and women, so to speak, of ships. Those who work with their hands and their minds. We need to do what we do in the military, is we train and retrain.

Apprenticeships, when they are delivered well, have the potential to offer massive benefits to our employers and our economy as a whole by upskilling our workforce, and offer a vital alternative to those who feel that a more academic route is not the right one for them.

Our political class obsesses over social mobility from one generation to the next - whether or not people are doing better than their parents did - but we rarely talk about those who are already in work and want to progress.

Apprenticeship is a proven model for developing a skilled workforce.

Work is at the heart of human dignity.

I caution people away from quitting their jobs to travel the world because I don't think traveling the world is a worthy cause on its own.

Stop overanalyzing how you 'feel' about your job and focus on being great at it. That will lead to bigger and better opportunities.

Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people.