And it must provide an immediate boost to the economy, create jobs and help laid-off workers with health care and unemployment insurance,

With our robust economy, American workers are finally seeing some improvement in the health benefits they receive. But low-wage employees still face enormous barriers to getting health insurance.

We can create many local jobs if all retailers were to take advantage of local capacity. We have willing workers and idle industrial capacity.

Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for temp jobs, even if it is at the expense of productivity. When labor protection has become excessive and unaffordable, as it is in France, labor market institutions must be reformed.

We obviously need the workers for a lot of jobs.

The economy seems very healthy and there is a significant demand for workers.