Hillary Clinton Holds Town Hall for Digital Content Creators

On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton attended two fundraisers and held a town hall event for digital content creators in Los Angeles, California. During the event, Clinton spoke about her plans to cultivate innovation and assist young people with their startups. Clinton then took questions from those in attendance and spoke about a number of topics including job creation, foreign policy alliances, and her thoughts on Republican Donald Trump.

Clinton also unveiled her Initiative on Technology & Innovation on Tuesday. While some of the details were discussed at an event earlier in the day in Denver, more details were discussed during the evening’s town hall. The extensive plan includes proposals to assist entrepreneurs, improve the technology used in the United States, update existing infrastructure, expand computer science and STEM education, protect user privacy, and make government more technologically efficient. An outline of Clinton’s proposals are below and the full details are available on The Briefing.

• Spurring entrepreneurship and innovation clusters like Silicon Valley across the country
• Allowing young entrepreneurs to defer their federal student loans for up to three years
• Connecting every household in America to high-speed internet by 2020
• Providing every student in America access to computer science education by the time they graduate
• Building the Tech Economy on Main Street
  • Providing Every Student in America an Opportunity to Learn Computer Science
  • Engaging the Private Sector to Train up to 50,000 Computer Science Teachers
  • Encouraging Local STEM Education Investments
  • Opening up the Higher Education and Job Training Landscape
  • Rebooting Job Training around Industry Needs and Job Credentials
  • Supporting Programs to Diversify the Tech Workforce
  • Spur Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clusters like Silicon Valley across the Country
  • Support Young Entrepreneurs
  • Attract and Retain the Top Talent from Around the World
  • Invest in Science and Technology R&D
  • Ensure Benefits are Flexible, Portable and Comprehensive
• Investing in World-Class Digital Infrastructure
  • Close the Digital Divide
  • Launch a “Model Digital Communities” Grant Program
  • Connect More Community Anchor Institutions to High-Speed Internet
  • Deploy 5G Wireless
• Advancing America’s Global Leadership In Tech & Innovation
  • Fight for an Open Internet Abroad
  • Promote Multi-Stakeholder Internet Governance
  • Grow American Technology Exports
  • Promote Cyber-Security
  • Safeguard the Free Flow of Information across Border
  • Update Procedures Concerning Cross-Border Requests for Data by Law Enforcement
• Setting Rules of the Road to Promote Innovation While Protecting Privacy
  • Promote Healthy Competition at the Federal, State and Local Level
  • Defend Net Neutrality
  • Improve the Patent System to Reward Innovators
  • Effective Copyright Policy
  • Commercial Data Protection
  • Protect Online Privacy as well as Security
• Engineering a Smarter and More Innovative Government
  • Make Government Simpler and More User Friendly
  • Open up More Government Data for Public Uses

A video from the town hall event is below.

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News Source: The Briefing, The Los Angeles Times

Clinton Outlines Manufacturing Plan

Clinton hold a roundtable discussion in Las Vegas on May 5, 2015

On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton’s campaign released her outline to boost the United States’ manufacturing sector and assist communities that once had a strong manufacturing economy. Her plan includes a series of tax credits for communities that have lost manufacturing jobs, expanding access to grants and capital for smaller startups and manufacturers, stricter regulations for companies, and added emphasis on training and education. In the plan, Clinton argues that manufacturing is key to our economy because it provides higher paying jobs and boosts innovation. Losing these jobs not only hurts the economy, but diminishes America’s status as the leader in advanced manufacturing. Details of the full plan are available on The Briefing and are outlined below.

• Revitalize the hardest-hit manufacturing communities
  • Provide tax relief by introducing the “Manufacturing Renaissance Tax Credit”
  • Prevent hard hit areas from becoming worse
• Create Incentives for companies to bring jobs back to the United States
  • Provide tax relief for research and innovation
  • End inversions and other tax loopholes that reward companies for shifting earnings overseas
  • Double support for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership
  • Expand access to capital for smaller manufacturers
• Level the global playing field for American workers, businesses, and manufacturers and aggressively combat trade violations
  • Crack down on currency manipulation
  • Vigorously and consistently prosecute trade violations
  • Enter trade agreement that benefit American jobs
• Strengthen long-term investment in America’s “industrial commons” through regional innovation, infrastructure, and R&D.
  • Build upon the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation
  • Prevent abuse of labor rights by supporting workers’ right to unionize and collectively bargain
  • Enhance links between university researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, and industry
  • Insist on strong domestic sourcing requirements that make being “Made in the USA” a priority throughout investments in manufacturing and infrastructure
  • Provide more Americans with access to tools for innovative design, prototyping, and engineering projects
• Support skills and training for America’s workforce
  • Encourage proven, high-quality training and apprenticeships
  • Provide a $1,500 tax credit for every apprentice hired through a bona fide apprenticeship program
  • Expand nationwide credentialing with strong industry input
  • Build on models that allow federal student aid to be used toward high-quality career and technical training programs with promising or proven records
  • Provide tuition-free community college, and reduce student debt by allowing students to refinance their loans

Tonight, Clinton is scheduled to attend a town hall in Salem, New Hampshire. For all the latest, follow our Scheduled Events page and follow Clinton on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

News Source: Time, The Briefing