Beware, Millennials: Hillary Clinton is eying your vote.
The Democratic presidential candidate in a necessary attempt to appeal to Millennial Americans proposed an apprenticeship program to tackle youth unemployment during remarks in South Carolina Wednesday.
From CNN:
During the speech, Clinton highlighted the 2014 bipartisan plan from Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, a Republican who hails from North Charleston, and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, a Democrat. In 2014, the duo introduced the LEAP Act, a plan that would do exactly what Clinton plans to do: Provide employers with a tax credit when they hired apprentices.
Clinton’s verbalized plan — which was devoid of many details — was essentially borrowed from that introduced by Scott and Booker, right down to the specific credit figure awarded to businesses who make use of apprenticeships.
But, all is well — GOP Sen. Scott, of course, is probably one of Hillary’s alleged many “Republican friends.”
“I want to ask my Republicans friends, and I have a lot of them … to think hard about how we can invest in the people who need it most,” Clinton said during her remarks Wednesday, which were delivered at Trident Technical College in the early-voting state. “We have done enough for those who have already been successful. I want to be a president for both the successful and the struggling, and right now, the struggling need more help.”
“I don’t care what party you are, I don’t care where you are from, bring the best ideas, bring the best partners and lets solve problems together,” Clinton continued.
Should the Democratic presidential candidate want to get Millennial voters to come out for her as they did for Obama, she will need to continually address the issue of youth jobs. After all, the unemployment rate among young Americans is over two percentage points higher than that of the national population.
Unfortunately for Clinton, her past of defending her own universal healthcare plan and later Obamacare has actually done young Americans a huge economic disservice.
Clinton also addressed college cost during her brief speech, alleging that she will eventually unveil a “comprehensive proposal” regarding “what to do about making college affordable and [lowering] the debt load of people who are already out of school.”
“It is too expensive for so many young kids and their families to afford to go to college right now,” Clinton explained. “So we have got to give ways for people to get the cost down.”
The former secretary of state also praised “vocational and technical education” as alternatives to more traditional college degrees.
