United States Secretary of Labor

After her time as the first lady, Hillary Clinton secured a seat in the senate, and then served as the secretary of state in the white house under Obama. (4) She was also a lawyer who worked on the Watergate scandal. (5) On the 12th of April 2015, she officially announced her candidacy for president.(1) In her campaign video she said, “Everyday Americans need a champion. I want to be that champion.” (18) Clinton is the top choice for the Democratic Party to keep the white house. She appeals…

looking at the contents of his folder. Yusuf knew that his deputy hated the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and the Prime Minister did not have a strong attachment to either one. Yusuf also knew that the Prime Minister always ignored the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. So Michael dealt only with the Secretary of State. From the moment he had first seen the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Yusuf learned that it seemed…

An example of an international issue where General Shelton challenged a process concerned a situation in which the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wanted to deliberately place an American plane in harm’s way in Iraq that could have resulted in the death of Air Force Personnel. This deliberate act would have resulted in a false justification for attacking Iraq. General…

In the 26th song of the popular Broadway musical Hamilton and conclusion to the first act, “Non-Stop”, George Washington sings to Alexander Hamilton, before asking Hamilton to join his presidential cabinet as Treasury Secretary, “They are asking me to lead / I am doing the best I can / to get the people that I need / I’m asking you to be my right-hand man.” (Miranda). Hamilton later uses similar words (“they are asking me to lead”) to his wife, Eliza Hamilton, as she pleads with him not to take…

issues but the small differences that set them apart are what matters. It is vital for the Democratic party to nominate the right candidate in order to win the election over the Republican candidate, Donald trump. The position of President of the United States is not one that should be taken by anyone. It is a stressful job that requires the Commander in Chief to be experienced in legislature,…

what different groups like the IMF agree upon. Labor laws can be similar but usually vary wildly across the world when you compare them to a developed country like the United States of America. The main labor laws that govern in Honduras are, “Social Security Law; Minimum Salary and Minimum Salary Agreement published in La Gacceta; National Program of Employment per Hour; Bylaws National Program of Employment per Hour” (Padilla).…

National Labor Relations Act The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), also known as the Wagner Act, is a Federal Law enacted by the Congress in 1935 to protect both employers and employees. It protects employees regardless of whether one is a member of a union or not. It grants them the right to form or join trade unions in order to improve their working conditions. NLRA stabilizes the employer-employee union relations (Bible, 2015). The Act also restrains certain private sector labors and…

Trafficking: An Economic Lens The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States” . However, even in the 21st century, slavery endures within the “Land of the Free”. Human trafficking is a modern slavery, defined as the act of transporting, buying, or selling people for purposes of exploitation, including prostitution, sexual exploitation, forced labor, and the removal of organs. An estimated 2.5…

Child Labor was the most effective reform from The Gilded Age because it impacted most of the working children, and factories in United States. “Child labor began to decline as the labor and reform movements grew and labor standards in general began improving, increasing the political power of working people and other social reformers to demand legislation regulating child labor”. As the problem of child labor grew more and more attention, people started to make unions and reforms to help…

Harry S. Truman became the 33rd President of the United State on April 12, 1945. Truman had only been vice-president for 12 weeks when President Franklin D. Roosevelt [FDR] died suddenly and catapulted Truman into the presidency. Truman had not been aware of the nature of Roosevelt’s long illness and knew little about crucial issues relating to the development of the atomic bomb, the increasing conflict with the Soviet Union and other wartime problems. Truman told the media, “I felt like the…