“Hillary Clinton is a tested leader who shares our values, is supported by our members, and is prepared for a tough fight on behalf of students, families and communities”, Randi Weingarten, the union’s president, said in the statement.
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Clinton is expected to lay out her economic agenda in a speech Monday. The white working class may be out of the Democrats’ reach in most of the states of the Deep South (Obama won only 11 percent of its ballots in Alabama and 10 percent in Mississippi), but it is vital elsewhere. “I think the message that we have is resonating”. It’s more like, they’re not doing things that are helpful in the long term. He still resists personal attacks against Clinton, but is quick to draw differences in their positions. She will note how her challenge differs from that of Obama, whose actions were shaped largely around fixing the immediate financial crisis he inherited. “And I strongly believe that unions are part of the solution, too”, Clinton stated.
Clinton has demurred on whether big Wall Street banks should be broken up by separating commercial banking from investment banking, as some in her party have called for. But Clinton will tout, as a campaign official put it, “faster, fairer, more sustainable growth”, courtesy of increased purchasing power among middle- and lower-income Americans. “Thoughtful, innovative proposals are going to help her”, said Democratic strategist Bill Carrick. In the run-up to the 2008 presidential contest, the AFT endorsed Clinton at the height of the fierce primary campaign battle between Clinton and Barack Obama.
“Hillary Clinton may not get the republican vote, but she could get the democratic vote at the convention and that could be important”, said Corroon. “She thinks American workers are doing fine”.
“The urgency [is] so much higher on some of these issues than they were in the past-the fact that we look more and more to the administration as a source of relief rather than Congress passing laws”, said the Arizona Democrat, who also is the cochair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen.
The speech is created to build the framework for policies she will detail more fully in a series of announcements over the summer. But his comment will nonetheless allow Clinton to highlight the contrast between her economic aspirations and the approach taken by Bush and the other Republicans. She has provided local news outlets in early-voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire with usable quotes. She’s also likely to propose some new rules governing Wall Street.
Clinton’s plan comes with a major shift in thinking among some of the country’s elite economists.
The ex- first lady will say that technology has created new business opportunities but also threatens to kill middle-class jobs, benefits and protections. “But they don’t make it inevitable”.
“Every policy she is pursuing will make income inequality worse, not better, crony capitalism even worse, not better”.
The AFL-CIO’s endorsement would provide a huge advantage to a presidential candidate, given the large role that labor plays raising money and mobilizing voters for candidates.
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To recap, Clinton’s private server was wiped clean-technically, filtering out emails older than 60 days-sometimebetween December 5, 2014, and March 27, 2015.
