Clinton’s economic plans likely to boost her corporate donors

Published August 21, 2016 4:01am ET



Hillary Clinton spent the past two weeks rolling out economic proposals that include the “biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II” and a tax hike on corporations and the wealthy, which could create lucrative opportunities for many of the corporations that have lined her campaign coffers.

She has proposed refurbishing the electrical grid to make it “clean,” and establishing a government-run bank that would steer taxpayer funds toward the private companies that are chosen to implement her projects. One ambitious aspect of her plan involves extending broadband access to every American household by 2020.

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