She didn't have many details on what she meant by wanting to get "unaccountable money" out of politics, nor did she offer a point-by-point economic plan. Instead, she spent much of the roundtable encouraging the six others at the table to share their ideas for how to make education work.
But she did stress that education would be a key part of her economic message, endorsing President Barack Obama's push to make community college free and suggesting that she supports tougher regulation of for-profit colleges.
One way to help give kids opportunities, she said, is with some level of standardization in education, like the Common Core, so that "there wouldn't be two tiers of education."
Instead, it's become a flashpoint, especially among Republicans—Jeb Bush supports the model while many of the other members of the GOP running for president oppose it as excessive government overreach—and Clinton is disappointed by that. "When I think about the really unfortunate argument that's been going on around Common Core, it's really painful," she said.
Ultimately, she closed with a reference to her young granddaughter, Charlotte, whose birth helped motivate her to run.
"I don't know how many babies were born on Sept. 26 last year but I want every one of them to feel like they have the same opportunities that we're going to do everything we can to make sure that Charlotte has," she said.
Hillary Clinton Comes Out Swinging At CEOs, Hedge Fund Managers
April 14, 2015
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I just skimmed this article but statements like this are feeding an ignorant cancer in America: "there’s something wrong when hedge fund managers pay less in taxes than nurses or the truckers I saw on I-80†Pandering to the masses with misinformation and class warfare is not just political maneuvering and vote gathering. It has the real potential to destroy the long term economic power of the US as we know it. Top earners pay pretty much all of the taxes in this country. It is true that some "income" for financial sponsors and hedge fund managers is treated as long term cap gains and one could argue that perhaps that should be revisited. Nevertheless, top earners paying income tax or paying income tax and cap gains are still paying the most in absolute dollars any way you cut it. An open discussion of true tax reform should be welcomed but misguiding an audience that is easily manipulated is outright shameful. And don't get me started on AMT.... With April 15 just behind us it is ridiculous that AMT catches pretty much all middle and upper middle income tax payers. The upper, upper earners blow right through it so at the end of the end of the day it is just a stealth tax on overtaxed people to begin with. Pease amendment, Medicare surtax, AMT, etc, etc.