Economics

Hillary Clinton Puts Focus on Growing the Middle Class, Reining in Wall Street

The Democratic front-runner takes aim at income inequity, short-term profits.

Clinton Calls Out GOP Rivals in Economy Speech

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Hillary Clinton on Monday outlined a plan for economic growth focused on the middle class and signaled she'll be offering an extensive set of proposals to rein in Wall Street in one of the first major policy speeches of her presidential campaign.

"I believe we have to build a growth and fairness economy. You can’t have one without the other," the Democratic front-runner said at New York's New School, a university known as a liberal think tank on economics and foreign policy. "We can't create enough jobs and new businesses without more growth, and we can't build strong families and support our consumer economy without more fairness. "