FAIRVIEW, Pennsylvania — U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia believes direct engagement can be more instructive than words on a page.

In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, Scalia credited his experiences this week visiting manufacturing facilities in Cleveland, Buffalo, and Erie, Pennsylvania, with giving him more insight into how to keep the economy growing than any internal Labor Department document could.

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