America's Workers
Our national workforce keeps our country running and provides invaluable services we often take for granted. Nobody should have to work multiple jobs or extraordinary hours to provide for their family, save for retirement or feel financially secure. As an electrician by trade, I know the best social program in the world is a job and I believe every worker must have an opportunity to succeed, which starts with fair pay. Women have made great strides in history, but it’s time they receive equal pay for equal work and the opportunity to maintain a work and family balance. We need to ensure working families have fair wages, safe working conditions, and a voice in the workplace.
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...Democratic Congressman Donald Norcross hosted a small business seminar Monday morning, March 27th, at Camden County College in Blackwood. The idea was to encourage potential entrepreneurs by introducing them to people who have made a success of their own small businesses.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), a member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and a bicameral group of lawmakers introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2017 that will help working families by raising the federal wage from the current level of $7.25 to $15.00 an hour by 2024 and index the minimum wage to the median wage starting in 2025.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) issued the following statement in reaction to President Donald Trump's latest budget proposal:
"President Trump is again exposing his true priorities with this proposed budget – help for billionaires at the expense of hard-working American families.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), issued the following statement on the Trump Administration's formal notice to Congress that it plans to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA):
"Any trade deal needs to benefit American workers - and it's clear American workers have been the losers here. In South Jersey, 19,500 manufacturing jobs have been lost since NAFTA came into force, which is unacceptable.
WASHINGTON, DC - Co-Chairs of the Congressional Building Trades Caucus, Congressmen Donald Norcross (D-NJ) and David McKinley (R-WV), along with the Construction Employers of America, commemorated Infrastructure Week 2017 and called for robust infrastructure investments at a press conference on Capitol Hill.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, on the 63rd anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and House Democrats introduced the Rebuild America's Schools Act of 2017.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, H.R. 2353, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, passed the House Education and Workforce Committee unanimously and Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), a member of the Committee, included a provision that extends the allowable use of funding for career-building programs.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), a member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, joined a bicameral group of lawmakers to introduce the "Accurate Workplace Injury & Illness Records Restoration Act." This legislation would reinstate the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) recordkeeping rule that was overturned by a Resolution of Disapproval (H.J. Res. 83) under the Congressional Review Act and signed into law by President Trump on April 3, 2017.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced that Rowan University was awarded $1,200,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program for a new science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educator recruitment and preparation program. The program encourages talented STEM graduates and professionals to become K-12 teachers at local public schools.