Create new opportunities for those who need it most. Without a doubt, it will be women who lead the way. When women lead this fight, we will and poverty in america. Only when america every American Woman and family gives gets a fair shot to achieve their full potential, will americans ever be able to achieve theres. Thank you. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] can everybody hear me all right . Senator, thank you so much. That was quite an exhilarating challenge to all of us. If i could summarize your agenda for american opportunity, it has five planks. Paid leave, raise the minimum wage, affordable childcare, universal prek, and equal pay for equal work. They are all really important issues. I want to try to relate them bek to what we will discussing all day. You mentioned the war on poverty and the fact we are celebrating an anniversary and everybody is talking about that. One of the academics th
Potential. Skills every child in america needs, any childhood will tell you this fact and so will ever mother. The first five years of the childs life is the window we have to give the most essential skills for success. Millions of families that are struggling this is an they wont get. The block that youly on, should not determine the success of the life that you have. The is why we need to make investments today to bring affordable prek to every child in america. This gives every child a chance own to make strong sure their hard work takes them go. Far they can every dollar that you invest in it is anducation, important for our overall today. It means more working mothers get to stay in the work force, for their children and stay on a path to advance their careers. The wholeod for economy. Critics say our debt and we cant afford this. I agree we have to do more to the deficit under control. Every budget we write is about we fight for. In a global economy, when were countries and marke
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