And of course there are a lot of things we need to do. Make sure we finally the Women Equal Pay for equal work. [speaking in native tongue] and i am going to say this is not just a womens issue. This is a family economic issue. If people are not being paid fairly that hurts everybody, the Small Business that does not get enough customers because people cannot afford with there selling. I mean that is a growth strategys. A growth strategy. The more we equalize what people are paid according to there own effort the better off we we will be. Our longterm strategy we must make investments that we will grow our economy and research and investment, infrastructure. It is beyond my understanding that we are having a partisana partisan battle in congress. We are in a global competition. Other countries are investing in there infrastructure command i do not mean the physical infrastructure come as important as that is the more roads and airports and bridges. I mean our virtual infrastructure. We
That. Some people suggested recently that american works need to be willing to work longer hours. I dont think Many Americans work fewer hours by choice unless there are Health Issues or child care limitations or other responsibilities. I think Many Americans working part time would like to work full time. The slack in the labor market seems to indicateu kateicate we have a ways to go. Discuss the concern for the number of workers working part time but would like to be in the workforce. We have a larnl share of the workforce, believing it is around four and half percent working less hours than they would like to work. The broader measure is the measure of the Unemployment Rate we normally look at is 5. 3 . Broader measures that capture that part time for economic reasons a measure like you six. We have a picture in the Monetary Policy report and we show how high that is and of course it is always higher than the narrowing concept of unemployment it is very much higher than you would ex
Of individuals like the clintons, who worked hard for the middle class throughout their entire lives. [applause] hillarys here today to talk about economic growth. She is here to talk and take your questions regarding our economy. We had this promise here in america. That promise is if we all work hard and we play by the rules we can get ahead. You folks who dont know me, i have run a business here for 40 years. Im in the boat business in dover. I can tell you that they are saying a rising tide floats all boats. I can tell you that the greatest expansion in peacetime since world war ii is during a time that the clintons from arkansas occupy the white house. [applause] and i dont know about you but we are still here in dover we are still members of the working class, middleclass families, and we need an ally. We need an ally in the white house. That will not forget where they came from. I can tell you and you have my word that the clintons never forgot where they came from. Ever. [appla
Between our economy and our society. I believe the ability of the economy to work for everybody and get our democracy towork for everybody command it will require changes in both. [applause] so i am excited about this campaign. Campaign. He cited below we can do together. I really believe that this is one of those elections that we will set the course for the rest of the century command we need to get it right. We cannot go backwards. What i am proposing is not left to right some much as it is forward or backward command we we will go forward. [applause] so with that lets start with your questions. They can be about anything. Anything. The firsthand as i go up was this young woman either. My name is brenda bouchard. I have been a caregiver for my husband for nearly ten years. He has anger onset alzheimers. My mother is almost 89. I am one of 65,000 alzheimers care givers in the state of New Hampshire and no firsthand the pain of seeing someones the boy to this disease. I no the financi