17 Quotes by Michael Strauss

Business owners have a responsibility to ensure their workers are eligible to work in the U.S.. But 80 percent of our members are small business owners that build less than 25 homes a year. The government can't expect small business owners to handle this burden of policing and should take the role of making sure workers are documented.

We support reform of the U.S. immigration system, but we also estimate about 20 percent of the current residential construction workforce nationwide is composed of foreign-born workers.

While the CPI print was a bigger drop than expected, there are some components that show some price increases. That probably implies core inflation is starting to creep up.

This shows tremendous economic resilience, the fact that we can get a 3.8 per cent growth rate with the issues that unfolded in the latter stages of the quarter.

The sell-off in the bond markets, not only here, but in global bonds, is scaring a lot of investors. At the same time, we are seeing a rotation from some of last year's bigger gainers, such as the energy companies, and people are just taking profits on those big names.

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

It looks like the economic recovery there is the real McCoy.

Oil shouldn't be trading above $65 a barrel. It constrains the whole market and only some energy utility shares benefit.

They (immigrants) are productive workers and they are needed in our industry.