Lgbtq plus community and i know that gay marriage was just legalized in all 50 states and i dont under mine that. Yeah thats awesome. [ applause ] but i was wondering what you specifically were going to do about antidiscrimination laws in the workplace. Because i dont want to be able to get married to someone of the same gender but also be discriminated against in my workplace. Thank you. Thank you. [ applause ] well youre right. The supreme courts decision was an extraordinary historic milestone. And i think its worth if you have any interest in this looking at this decision. Of course its a constitutional decision. But more than that its a decision about how we treat each other, how we respect each other, how we acknowledge that as Justice Kennedy said people shouldnt have to be lonely. People can have relationships and love one another and on and on. It was a quite moving decision to me. But you put your finger on the next big challenge, and that is discrimination. When i was in the senate i supported the end of law to end discrimination against people based in those days as we used to say on sexual orientation. And i think we have to do more to make sure that we end discrimination in the workplace in particular. So i am committed to that. I will work for that and as president ially do everything i can to get that enacted into law. [ applause ] right there. Wait. May we get a microphone . Here comes one. The room got so overcrowded. We were going to have microphones set up but then we got more chairs. Thanks all of our aides who are doing the work they are doing to get us in here. I want to thank you senator clinton for speaking out about the corporations are having too much leeway to write the rules. Dover has gotten a grant to acquire military equipment from the federal government. In this case an Armored Vehicle called a bear cat manufactured by a Company Called lanco. Now lanco actively helps cities do the paperwork so they can qualify for the money that the federal government will provide so they can get the military vehicles which then cause problems with Community Relations in communities where the police start to act perhaps more like military forces instead of like people protecting the community. So i guess my question for you is what steps will you take to make sure that our local Law Enforcement do not become just another Profit Center for the military industrial complex. [ applause ] you know thats a very important question on several levels, one of which you just mentioned. And also because the militarization of local police has been in many way as problem over the last couple of years with some of the incidents that weve had in communities across our country. So i have already spoken out. We really do need to look hard at preventing the militarization of local police forces. And that means a lot of this heavy military equipment that was already manufactured or manufactured after 9 11 which is made available to local communities should not necessarily end up there. Let me just make this point. Part of the reason for this is that after 9 11 i was a senator from new york. So i, i was there within, you know, hours, the next day, seeing what had happened in new york. And as part of the effort to try to protect our country through the new department of Homeland Security a lot of money was appropriated that would go through that process that could then be used by cities and towns across america. I think it was too broad. I think it was unfortunately lasting too long so that its still going on as you rightly say here. And i just think that local communities working with the federal government need to take a hard look at whether we need to be paying for and subsidizing the transfer of such equipment to local communities. There still may be places in america where it is warranted. But i think its gone too far and needston to be reigned in. Thank you for raising that. [ applause ] excuse me. Excuse me. Sorry. So many hands. I want to go back to the stage because you guys had my back the whole time. Go ahead. And here comes a microphone in a hurry here. Secretary clinton thank you so much for coming out to New Hampshire and speaking to us today. You talked a lot about building our infrastructure and the future in this country. As a young person im really concerned about the threat of Climate Change the threat of Climate Change to our families, our country and around the world. And scientists have shown that we need to keep 08 of fossil fuels in the ground to prevent a 2 degrees celsius warms which would be really dangerous. So my question is will you commit to banning fossil fuel extraction on public lands in this country where is where 70 of fossil fuels lay under ground . Yes or no, will you ban this. Thank you. [ applause ] the answer is not until we got the alternatives in place. And that may not be a satisfactory answer to you but i think i would have to take the responsible answer. I am 100 in favor of accelerating the development of solar, wind, advanced biofuels, energy efficiency. Everything we can do. [ applause ] and i would hope that we could get to the point that you made, which is looking at our public lands and cutting back over time, phasing out the extraction of fossil fuels. But i will say this. We still have to run our economy, we still have to turn on the lights. We still have to make sure that businesses operate. So i want to do as much as i can as quickly as i can to make this energy transition. But i could not responsibly say to you that i could automatically stop the source of fossil fuels right away without having a substitute in order to keep the economy going, to keep people employed, the keep the lights on. But your larger point i think really bears repeating. Climate change is an egs tenl threat. Climate change is real. Everybody on the other side who says to you that [ applause ] you know, they say to you when you ask them about Climate Change, well im not a scientist. You should say back, why dont you start listening to the scientists, because the scientists are telling you the truth. [ applause ] [ cheers applause ] and once you do, then you will be urgently trying to act in your own personal situation trying to be more energy efficient, trying to figure out how to get alternatives available to your home to your business standing up against some of the really poorly thought out plans by some states to prevent the further acceleration of solar and wind and enabling businesses and individuals to sell back to the grid, all of the things that can make a difference more quickly to speed us toward the moment. So i think weve got to have a comprehensive and very well thought through antiClimate Changes pro Clean Renewable Energy plan. I really applaud what the president has done without having the authority of congress, what hes done with executive orders. We need to continue on it, build on it protect that. And hopefully [ applause ] hopefully we can get to the point where we develop Something Like a consensus in our country. And heres what really upsets me. The people who are against doing something on Climate Change have no alternative. Its more of the same. Keep doing it. Keep doing what were doing now. That is a losing policy. So we do need more people in congress who understand and believe in the importance of addressing Climate Change. We need a president who will keep moving as far as possible on executive authority until we can get more legislation passed. We need the United States to set the example. But i dont want to say i will do something that i know would be very difficult to do until we get everything moving in the right direction and we get better results. And we get more people doing what their piece of the action might be. So i want all of us to think through what can we do. And if we can get to the point where we end the extraction on public lands and at least until we phase it out, get more money to fight Climate Change from those who are doing the extraction, well be on the right track to get to where we need to be. [ applause ] how are you . Im doing okay. Just wanted to ask you a problem that i personally see thats coming is regarding policy. [ inaudible ] [ applause ] im really glad you asked that question because most people think the student loan problem is just a Young Persons problem, and its not. Its not only that people like yourself went back to school to get additional education, but a lot of parents and grandparents are cosigning and guaranteeing and taking out student loans, sometimes mortgaging their homes in order to do that. This is a multigenerational problem. We have 1. 2 trillion in outstanding student debt held by 40 million americans. This is a terrible drag on individuals. Its a budget buster for so many individual families. And its also bad for the economy. Because a lot of the people who are weighted down from all ages by the student loan debts, they cant start a new business they cant buy a house. Ive had young people tell me they cant afford to get married because of their student loan debt. Heres what i want to do. I want to refinance the existing debt. The Interest Rate is too high compared to what the real Interest Rate in the economy is. [ applause ] and i will be rolling out a specific plan about how i think we can refinance it. You are absolutely right. The big concern is that a lot of that money is owed to the government. So if you refinance and you lower the payments, you know that creates an additional budget strain on the government budget. But i think weve got to do it. I dont see any way out. In part because i think that the Interest Rates were too high to begin with especially when they didnt reflect the real Interest Rates. The other thing is weve got to get the cost of college to be more affordable so going in it has to be more affordable. [ applause ] and i also really appreciate what you said about how you had to defer a payment. Because youre paying a flat rate based on that 6 Interest Rate, right . So when i went to law school i had to borrow money. I didnt have money. I came from a middle class family. My dad said i can help you go to college. If you go to law school, youre on your own. I worked got a little scholarship but i borrowed money. I borrowed money that was affordable to me and my husband at the time, my boyfriend he borrowed money and we signed up for an income restin gentleman payment plan. I went to work out of law school for the Childrens Defense Fund. I went to work i think i made like 14,000 a year as i remember. We paid back as a percentage of our income. So that with didnt have to defer payments because we didnt have a high Interest Rate that was literally causing us to have to crowd out other obligations. I want to have more people have access to new york contingency repayment programs as well. [ applause ] and i believe at a certain point, particularly if you do a Public Service thing, to go back to the woman with the alzheimers challenges in her own family if you become a nurse, you become a social worker, a firefighter, a police officer, a teacher name the Public Service jobs that our Society Needs you ought to have your loan forgiven after a certain period of time. [ applause ] and if you have another kind of employment, we could look at how we get the Interest Rate down we get the payment schedule down. But even look at forgiveness eventually there too. Because think of the amount of money 1. 2 trillion. Think of what that would mean going into the economy. And i think we can see that its a really good trade off if we make it. Were going to be looking to see how we refinance and make college more affordable. [ applause ] yes, right there. Yeah. Yeah. Here comes a microphone. Im sorry. Hi secretary clinton. Thank you for taking my question. Im a Public Schoolteacher and and i just wanted to know what your stance on education is and the economy because the last 17 years that ive been teaching ive seen Public School really decline and its really a concern of mine and im sure many people here. [ applause ] what do you teach . Special education. Okay. Well, first of all, thank you for teach inging. I am really concerned about what were doing to our teachers and oush students and our Education System because i dont believe that we have recognizing the challenges that kids bring to school these days that have to be addressed by the teacher in the classroom or the teacher in the Specialty Program like special ed. So i believe strongly weve got to do more to support what works in school. And what works is recognizing what a hard job this is for so many teachers with so many kids [ applause ] you know i have a great friend, one of my friends really from sixth grade who taught for you know, 35, 40 years and retired and i asked her what was the difference between the beginning of your teaching career and the end of your teaching career. She taught in a superbburb of chicago. She said a lot more kids with problems that came to school that didnt really have any support and i had a difficult time trying to help them. Number two she said i felt like every kid i taught had a little Remote Control device in their brain and the they were turning me off all the time was they were so used to quickness and fast responses and you know, the slow hard, sometimes very boring work of learning something was just hard for them to concentrate on and to grasp. So heres what i want to say. I want to support those tried and True Research proven approaches that help you as a teacher do the west job you can. Help. Your students to succeed to the best of their ability. Help the school youre in to be a success. And i fear that weve gotten so focused on test taking to the exclusion of nearly everything else. And i really believe [ cheers applause ] you know i believe in tests. I mean, you know, they should be diagnostic. You should figure out how you can help somebody learn more. Theyre a good benchmark. But there are a lot of other things that help you teach the children that are in front of you that may not ever be reflected on a test. Special education when we passed it was a great accomplishment of the United States. One of the things that i did as a young lawyer work fg are the Childrens Defense Fund was to gather evidence about how many children in our country were not in school because they had some kind of disability. We forget those days. I literally knocked on doors in new bed ford, massachusetts saying do you have children who are not if school. And i melt blind children and deaf children and a little girl in a wheelchair. There was no place for them in their schools. So we did pass a law and we integrated them into our schools schools. But the federal government promised it would pay for the additional cost of special education. And the federal government has paid about 17 . And so what weve done is to say we want you to educate all of our children a noble important goal but were not going to really give you what you need to do that. The other thing we didnt do is to recognize that as important as elementary and secondary school is the first five years of live determine so much about how successful a child can be. [ cheers applause ] and, you know this is something ive worked on every since i was in law school because it just struck me that if you want law abiding citizens, you want productive worker, you gotta make sure kids go to school with the right about of discipline and love, the guidance they need to take advantage of the learning. And along came the Brain Research in the last 15 and 20 years. 80 of your brain is physically formed by the age of three. Think about the kids you now, like my wonderful amazing adorable nine and a half month old granddaughter. We are reading and talking and singing to that child. Have been since he was a week old. Oi told bill the other day, her first words are going to be enough with the reading the talking and the singing. Heres what we know because we have actually looked at the scans of little brains. It fires up that brain. I kree were doing this like crazy with her. And then weve got other little kids who have a lot harder time. They may not have two parents in the home and if they do they both may be working like crazy to put food on the table. They may have difficulties with drugs or alcohol or other problems. So by the time my little granddaughter gets the kindergarten the Research Shows she will have heard 30 million more words than a child from a less advantaged background. I want you to be the teacher. Put yourself in the teachers position. First day of kindergarten heres little charlotte. Since she does have some clinton genes, her problem is shes probably talking too much. But then think about Little Charlie who had just as much potential, pants to learn just as much but his vocabulary is nowhere near what it could be. And then we turn to the teacher and say okay from the first day of kindergarten youve got this achievement gap, you fix it and close it. Were going to point fingers at you if you dont. That is not right people. That is just not right. [ applause ] so many people oh my gosh, okay. This young man right there. Rightback against the wall. Yeah. Here comes a microphone. Back against the wall. Yeah. Here comes a microphone. [ inaudible ] say i gechb. They couldnt hear you. I think as we all know, the new horizons probe just passed within 8,000 miles of pluto. I hate to say it but its not a planet. Its a