general charles pinckney -- thomas perez a, excuse me. from south carolina. later on, they nominated another pinckney for president. they intended to be a national party, and that meant getting votes from the south. smith's way of using jefferson's anti-slavery views is suggesting that jefferson is a danger to slavery, that his thoughtless commitment to a pending existing social arrangement might extend to endangering the south by freeing the slaves and even then goes on to attack -- uses as an example jefferson's famous letter to benjamin banneker, the black surveyor and almanac maker. jefferson, of course -- this is an exchange of letters that gets brought up against jefferson because there are some condescending aspects to that letter, but the fact that jefferson had exchanged letters with banneker sent off alarm

secretary thomas perez doesn't just talk about raising wages he takes action. he has helped imelement a minimum wage increase for hundreds of thousands of government contract workers. and he helped expand minimum wage and overtime protection for over two million home care workers and currently he is seeking to update federal overtime rules to include up to six million more workers. from showing employers how they can raise wage and improve their bottom line to extolling the benefits of collective bargaining, secretary perez is an advocate for workers everywhere. brothers and sisters, please welcome, a leading voice in the fight for raise wages, our secretary of labor, thomas perez! [applause] >> morning. how are you doing? hey. [applause] >> how is everyone doing? i love to be here. this is one of my favorite universities and this is a wonderful venue with wonderful friends. rich, it has been hours. long time no see. i met shantel in new york city when we were with mayor bill de blasio advocating for working families. i come here with a sense of optimism, deter

always a pleasure to talk with you. >> thomas perez, the labor secretary.ry thompson. >> we have a mixed market in the wake of today's jobs report which was better than expected. as david as jim were pointing out earlier, the fact we saw declining average hourly wages, that will keep the fed on hold a while. that should be a positive for the markets. an expectation we could see continued low interest rates. after yesterday's triple distinct gain in the dow jones, a pullback. dow is off the worse levels of the session down 22 points. it's coming off those lose. s&p which opened to the upside traded lower. nasdaq which turned lower briefly is up about two points. let's look at some of the sector leaders in early trading today. we'll watch the energy sector. oil is trading below $50 a barrel right now at $49 and change. materials the leaders with technology and utilities in early trade. we are keeping watch on the retail sector. we are starting to get data on the december sales. right now a little bit weaker. they were talking about it earlier. macy's closing

that was secretary of labor thomas perez on squawk on the street.turns out we're creating jobs in the country like mad as we saw from today's robust payroll number. 25 2,000 new hires and i think it can continue in 2015 because our country is the fastest growing economy in the whole world. for many that's unexpected but what is truly difficult to predict is when we'll get wage increases. when will you get the raise? despite the strength of the economy that has 5.6% unemployment, the number the fed hoped to reach one day, we nevertheless saw an avenue a rage hourly earnings decrease of five cents? that's astounding, people. you can throw out pretty much everything you learned in econ 101 since wages should increase as labor pools get tighter. what could keep earnings down? fighting for jobs? remember there are millions of people out of the labor force but would love to be working. could be pressure pressure that comes from the ability of companies to move offshore if they want to. average wage in mexico is $5.50 an hour. it's $24.57 here and there is

thomas secretary thomas perez does not just talk he takes action.helped implement a minimum wage increase for hundreds of thousands of government contract workers and help expand the minimum wage and overtime protection for over 2 million home care workers and currently is seeking to update federal overtime rule to include up to 6 million more workers, from showing employers how they can raise wages and improve there bottom line. secretary perez is an advocate for workers everywhere. brothers and sisters, please welcome a leading voice in the fight to raise wages our secretary of labor, tom perez. [applause] >> thank you. good morning. how are you doing? [applause] [applause] how is everyone doing? one of my favorite universities and a wonderful venue with wonderful friends. love -- long time no see. it has been ours. shantel walker, i met her in the bronx. i come here with optimism and encouragement. you listen to people like shantel walker and kaytoo. we talk data and all of that, but this is about real people, the struggle as americans. hey how a

. >> and the massachusetts senator elizabeth warren and labor secretary thomas perez speak at the afl-cio's national summit on race and wages in washington. the conference focused on ways policy workers in such as the less than income and make increasing wages a priority in america. this is one hour 20 minutes. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> if everybody could please take your seats, we're going to get started. i am marybe mcmillan, secretary-treasurer of the north kill an afl-cio. welcome. [applause] >> welcome to the afl-cio's first ever national summit on raising wages. to all of you who joined us in person or via the live stream on the web thank you for participating. and i expect that we will have many more people join us and to go in, so please make them welcome. i also want to thank tell you get university for hosting us today. afl-cio organize -- value to university. inequality has become the defining economic story of our generation. for too long now workers productivity has gone up but our wages have remained flat. here in the richest country in the world we have bank teller