Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clintonis an American politician and the nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the United States in the 2016 election. She served as the 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, the junior United States Senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, First Lady of the United States during the presidency of husband Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001, and First Lady of Arkansas during the governorship of Bill Clinton from 1979...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 October 1947
CountryUnited States of America
Large corporations are amassing so much power in our economy. Sometimes it's called market concentration or even old-fashioned monopolies.
With less competition, corporations can use their power to raise prices, limit choice for consumers, cut wages for workers, crowd out start-ups and small businesses.
On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was during World War II when companies facing shortages of workers began to offer healthcare benefits as an inducement for employment. So from the early 1940s healthcare was seen as a privilege connected to employment. And after the war when soldiers came back and went back into the market there was a lot of competition, because the economy was so heated up.
We need to make it easier for companies to invest in good jobs here at home.
As president, I will ramp up enforcement of trade rules by appointing a new chief trade prosecutor and tripling the number of enforcement officers. We will work with both parties to pass the biggest investment new good paying jobs since World War II.
Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.
I want to direct $10 billion to create a make it in America partnership to support American manufacturing.
I want to take some of the ideas that worked when my husband was president, and we ended up with 23 million new jobs and incomes went up for everybody...
Bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them and undercut Americans' wages.
I am going to bring back infrastructure jobs, advanced manufacturing jobs, clean renewable energy jobs, innovation, technology, small business.
When we all help each other out, when we stand together, we are stronger together.
Let's defend overtime and go after wage theft.
I want to make college debt-free and for families making less than $125,000, you will not get a tuition bill from a public college or university if the plan that I worked on with Bernie Sanders is enacted.
Every time Donald Trump thinks things are not going in his direction, he claims whatever it is, is rigged against him.