largely whites in the treasury department. a perfect -- it is a perfect example, of if you are president you will tell your treasury secretary, you were to do with jackson did and say you are going to expand opportunities. if they are outperforming everyone else they should get more business. someone says if that a group is outperforming someone else, or a group, your question is right. will your word that group or person? the answer is "yes." there are opportunities in the economy we are not seizing on behalf of communities and individuals. i do not think there is any doubt, at all, we have to do

more to open doors and rebuild ladders of opportunities. when it comes to businesses, fsa , i will be vigilant and drive people to get results. you said,e about what we are doing this as charity, it is business. we intend towell, reward that. i talking too fast in response? regime and if you think we are talking too fast. he has a lot to ask. mr. martin: i have other stuff to ask. mrs. clinton: i know. mr. martin: 53% of black wealth was wiped out in home foreclosure crisis. it would take two generations for african-americans to recoup that money. one of the things the federal i willent didn't do, and

say, one of the greatest failures of the obama administration has been the housing policy. it was supposed to help 4 billion people and it helped 900,000. will you force the federal finance housing agency to write down the principle of homeowners and modify the bankruptcy code so that people who have homes can maintain those homes and not simply bail out banks and homeowners? mrs. clinton: i advocated that in 2007 and 2008. i was very unhappy we did not do enough to help people in their homes save their homes. i will look for ways to try to stop the damage so that we do not lose more homes because people have not recovered, and number two, we have to get back the homeownership business. a lot of financial institutions are reluctant to loan and more

reluctant to loan to african-american and latino -- now they are splitting off the hedge on it. mrs. clinton: i don't agree, i think that is wrong. we are now seeing some of the bad behavior coming from the folks who want those homes. they are forcing people out. article today about misleading people and forcing them to turn over their home on false pretenses. what happened in 2007 and 2008 is beyond horrible. lost their jobs, 5 million lost their homes, $13 trillion in family wealth was wiped out, most in home ownership, but also in for a one kay's, college scholarships, everyone needed the money to live. e people recover, it is

not enough. i want to do what i can to help everyone recover. [applause] 1991i graduated from college and interviewed with the birmingham news. all the editors wanted to hire me but hr said no because of my credit report. there are people being denied jobs because of credit reports and scores. you support congresswoman waters' bill that will repair the fair credit act? in most cases, wiping out requirements to have folks go through credit checks when they are applying for jobs, federal contractors as well as federal agencies? mrs. clinton: i generally agree, i don't know the specifics of

maxine's legislation. i will look at it, but 2 general reports. sometimes credit reports are wrong. for as a serious problem lot of people. i think a lot of credit problems, particularly for younger people, has to do with student debt, credit cards that they had to use in order to stay in college, to get their education. there are reasons why i do not think you should have credit reports following you like an anchor that you have to carry. i want people to be responsible, to pay their debts. i also want to make sure you have a second chance. you should not be denied a job that has nothing to do, as i understand working for the birmingham newspaper, what have with your credit score or situation. we need to look at that. mr. martin: last friday you were thosehere who interrupted your speech. you understand the reticence of

under yourthey say husband as president he signed into law the crime bill that has contributed to the mass incarceration problem? the welfare bill. ,o you understand the sentiment and one question is why not roll out your entire criminal justice program at one time, as opposed to individual speeches? mrs. clinton: first, i understand the sense of frustration and disappointment and outrage that young people, like those that were in atlanta there are aeel or lot of things to be fixed. there are impatient, and they deserve to be. they deserve to hear answers from people like me running for office, particularly president. i've had good, open, productive

conversations with representatives of the black lives matter movement. have talkedt we about together, is part of the proposals i am making. the reason we roll them out, and this is an interesting view as a leading member of the press, is you get more attention paid. if you put it out one day, it is a one-day story. if you roll them out, you get more coverage. we have been rolling them out since march or april, about criminal justice and incarceration reform. we will keep doing that, because i want people to look at what i am proposing. reducing mandatory sentences, the difference between powder and crack cocaine, which has been an unfair burden. we will ban the box, led people apply for jobs. , they they get to the end

talk about whatever record they might have. inwill invest more treatment, recovery, support, and job training programs. project, and it want that young people share the impatience and disappointment. we should be talking about going for it, but in the 1990's, the bill was in response to a horrific decade of crime. leaders of the communities of color and poor communities were in the forefront saying you must do something. it was done. it had a lot of positive, but also negative unintended consequences. that is why we have to take another look. a democracy should look at the evidence and make changes based on it. of martin: why not get rid all mandatory sentences and allow judges to have discretion as opposed to mandatory minimums where you have folks in jail for

20 or 30 years for small offenses? mrs. clinton: we want to get rid of the nonviolent low-level offenses being a way to go into jail or prison. we think there's more diversionary work to be done on that. else.s like everything it cuts both ways. if you reduce the mandatory minimum, it can reduce discrimination. men are farican more likely to be arrested, forged, eight, incarcerated doing the same things as white men. we want to reduce the minimums, but not open the door for a different form of discrimination . we're looking at how this would be applied in the real world. mr. martin: questions? myriad of issues that are of concern for me.

i have elderly parents. i am working. my main question is what is the plan of accountability for companies for disparities in pay between men and women come and how can we, as women, ensure we are receiving equal pay for the same work? amen.linton: i do not do a town hall anywhere in america without being asked this question. for those republicans who say this isn't a real-world problem, i wish they would come to my town halls. i don't know who they are talking to. there are several things. talk about it. make sure people cannot ignore, diminish, or pretend it is someone else's problem. enforce the laws on the books already. i will do that vigilantly. this is not only a woman's issue

-- it is a family and economic issue. you have one thing that stands in the way of knowing how widespread this is is the fact that in many businesses you can be fired for asking somebody else in the business how much they are paid. a lot of women do not know that they are being paid less than the men they are working beside doing the same job. that is what happened to the woman in alabama who had worked in a big factory for years. she got promoted, became the first woman foreman or forewoman. it was only by accident that she learned although there were four or five men doing the same job she was being paid bus. i went to remove doubt that transparency is acceptable, and if there needs to be changes in

the rules or laws about businesses so that they cannot retaliate, so you can find out how much you are being paid to compare your paid to other workers in the same situation. a young man came up to me in new hampshire. he said i want to tell you what i'm for you. he said his first real job was working as a cashier in the same store his mother worked in. he was 17. he was so proud, it was his first job. he got it because his mother knew someone, it was great. he came home with his first paycheck. his mother looks at it and her face falls. moreays you are making $1 than i am and i been there for four years. the manager said we think you have potential to go up in the business, you are a young man. my mother?at about

we are going to tackle this and end it once and for all. mr. martin: another question. go ahead. >> thanks for all you do. we are proud of you. madam president, -- mrs. clinton: from your lips to god's ears, right? have a problem, not only in south carolina but in most of the southern states and throughout the united states with guns. we know the nra is adamant about not doing anything to do away with these guns. findwe need to do is to what would you do to get rid of these guns on the streets that are in the homes that are inadvertently killing youngsters in their homes? what will you do to help us out

with that? ,rs. clinton: this is an issue i think we have to address. i understand how politically challenging it is. oureople a day die in country from guns. homicides, suicides, and avoidable accidents, like the gentleman was referring to. it is imperative that people make this a voting issue. i know that we can balance the legitimate rights of gun owners with the right to be safe going to school or going to church. the right to have more control peopleat happens -- going to stores buying guns, people that shouldn't have them. we need universal background checks for real. need to close the gun show loophole. close the online loophole.

people are buying guns and ammunition online. you have no idea who they are. some of the mass murderers, that is how they got what they used. we need to close the charleston loophole, it is unfortunately what enabled the young man to get a gun he was not entitled to . he was a felon with a felony conviction. under the rule, three business days is all you get to find out. the information had not been shared between 2 jurisdictions. after three days he got the gun and he murdered those 9 wonderful people. we need to remove the immunity that gunmakers and sellers have. they are the only industry in america that we give blanket immunity to. should be required to

apply technology that currently exists so that guns owned by responsible adults cannot be , or if theychildren are stolen, cannot be used by criminals. what i am appalled at are the numbers of young children, go into a closet, under a bed, or open a drawer and there is a loaded gun. the children kill themselves, their siblings, their parents, they injure people. that is crazy, my friends. i know the nra and gun love the are powerful, but the american people are more powerful, and the right to life is the most powerful at all. mr. martin: what is your hbc u plan. we talk about black doctors,

lawyers, and engineers. will you reverse the obama administration's parent plus 15,000ange that had students not coming back to campuses. will you reverse that policy, and what is your plan to assist historically black colleges and universities? mrs. clinton: i have my new college compact that would class inth state and this way. if you are going to a public college or university, you will not have to borrow money to pay for tuition. you can use your pell grant for living expenses. we will make it possible for far more young people to be able to go to college, finish college, and graduate without debt. hbcu, we willto

go further. 's,ot of $25 billion for hbcu datading private in private institutions. they graduate black professionals. we need more, not fewer. i will reverse the impact of the loan changes. you will reverse the loan changes? mrs. clinton: yes. first of all, my plan will mean that it is not necessary. but for those young people who dropped out, we have to figure out how to get them back in. we have to reverse the facts that led them to drop out. [applause] mr. martin: question. >> good afternoon, secretary clinton, and thank you so much for coming to south carolina and orangeburg. i have a two-part question for you. as you know, we have lost a lot of textile jobs here in south carolina over the past years, and my questions are: do you think your husband was right in signing nafta into law? and the second part of my question is, what will your administration do to bring back

industrial base jobs to south carolina? mrs. clinton: i know how controversial trade has been in south carolina, and south carolina is a classic case of winners and losers because of trade. the biggest losers have been a textile firms. because, a lot of those jobs, not just through nafta, but through differences in cost of production went to asia as well. so i don't feel we can blame the loss of the textile industry on nafta. i think it was broader than that. nafta may have opened the door more widely for jobs to go to mexico, but textile jobs were under global pressure, even without nafta. now, what does that mean? because the other side of the equation is that south carolina has attracted a great number of car companies, more advanced manufacturing companies.

so it is kind of a news-bad news story. what i want to do is make it possible to recruit internally within united states and externally from abroad more jobs -- and i'm not sure we can get textile jobs back unless they are more sophisticated, requiring higher levels of expertise in the dying and the printing and whatever else is required -- but i do think we can get more advanced manufacturing jobs back if we provide more tax credit and more tax support. if we do what i said at the very beginning, have more apprenticeship programs so we are training our workforce right here at home. the community college system is one of our biggest advantages in any measurement of how we can be successful. and i have been to a good community college outside of charleston, which is doing these apprenticeship programs. in advanced manufacturing. but let me just say, we are not going to get those jobs back unless we have skilled workers to be able to do them.

and that is where education comes in. because we have still too many people who don't have the skills that are required to do the advanced manufacturing. so i want a nationwide effort, but the focus on poorer states, like south carolina, to do more in a kind of, as you are saying, a new new deal or training program so we actually take seriously the idea we can get and keep these jobs. it is one of the reasons i came out against the transpacific partnership bill because we have to trade. we are 5% of the worlds population. we have to build things and sell things to the other 95%. people who are against trade no matter what i think are kind of missing the point. we need smart trade and fair trade and affective trade. and we need to mix it with taking care of our own people. so, if you open the door to

trade, which i am all for, you have to make sure that you have people in your own country who are able to compete for those jobs. the republicans are not for job training, they are not for preschool education that will prepare kids, they are not for rescaling the workforce. they don't want to spend any money on that. and i'm holding out to say, ok, we can do trade, but we can only do trade that is going to benefit the american people across the board if we invest in our own people and we give them the skills and opportunities to be successful. mr. martin: question. >> [applause] >> hello, my name is elaine cooper. and i am from columbia, south carolina. i have a question. if you would address the voter id bill here and voter suppression, and how our lines are drawn.

i think a lot would help the situation with one comment that was brought up at the forum last night, and that is automatic registration of all 18-year-olds. automatically when you turn 18, you would be a registered voter. could you please comment? and how you would go about doing that? mrs. clinton: actually, i propose that. i was the first person to propose that when i gave a speech about voting rights at southern texas university. and the reason i proposed it is because i believe strongly that young people should be registered when they turn 18. for legal reasons, they can opt out of that, but i don't think the vast majority would, and i want to see young people registered at 18. you raise a much bigger point. you know, when the supreme court -- and these are my words --gutted the voting rights act,

by rejecting the congress reauthorizing it, and i was in the senate to then, we voted to reauthorize the voting rights act. the supreme court was basically sending a message to political leaders that they could begin to try to find new ways to interfere with the right to vote. that may not have been their intention, but that has been the result. and so, all of these photo id, we did not have a problem of any magnitude whatsoever. our problem is not people illegally trying to vote. our problem is that legal folks are not doing what they should to vote to make sure their voices are heard. i have been taking on this issue, and i am going to keep taking it on, and i think the supreme court was absolutely wrong. there is legislation now being proposed in the congress to undo the damage. but in the meantime, we need to

have political action, litigation, mobilization against these efforts to suppress the vote. you ask yourself -- why are they doing that? pretty simple. there are some people they don't want to vote. alabama passed a voter id bill. and if they said, ok, one of the voter ids you can use is a drivers license with your picture on it. i don't believe they are necessary, but ok, you can use a voter id that way. then just a few months ago, they passed a bill and the governor asked to shut down the motor vehicle offices in the county's -- counties that have the biggest black populations. i spent 18 wonderful years in arkansas and i learned a lot. and one of my favorite philosophy lessons is this: if you find a turtle on a fence post, it did not get there by accident.

and so i went to alabama and i said, look, nobody can believe this. you don't close the offices in the counties with the biggest african-american vote and it is a coincidence. so, people have got to stand up against this. i think it is time that therapy an outrage, an outpouring from communities across these states that are doing this. it will be one of my highest priorities. i will do everything i can to help get people registered to make sure people understand they meet whatever the requirements are, and they then turn out to vote. because we need to have a big turnout in the 2016 election. mr. martin: we conducted a poll of black parents, and we asked them a question about charters. 74% of black parents said they were interested in enrolling their kids in charter schools. 79% favored school vouchers. we are in the state where brown versus board of education got its start.

61 years, black folks are still waiting for education to get right. do you support the expansion of charter schools and school vouchers? black parents say they are not satisfied with what is happening in traditional schools. mrs. clinton: i have, for many years now, about 30 years, supported the idea of charter schools. but not as a substitute for the public schools, but as a supplement for the public schools. >> [applause] mrs. clinton: and what i have -- what i have worked on through my work with the children's defense fund and my work and education arkansas and through my time as first lady and senator is to continue to say charter schools can have a purpose, but there are good charter schools and there are bad charter schools. just like there are good public schools and there are bad public schools. mr. martin: so let's get rid of all the bad. mrs. clinton: but the original idea behind the charter schools, roland, was to learn what worked

and then apply them in the public schools. here is a couple of problems. most charter schools -- i do want to say everyone -- most charter schools don't take the hardest to teach kids. or if they do, they don't keep them. and so the public schools are often in a no-win situation because they do, thankfully, take everybody. and then they don't get the resources or the help and support that they need to be able to take care of every child's education. so, i want parents to be able to exercise choice within the public school system. not outside of it. but within it, because i am still a firm believer that the public school system is one of the real pillars of our democracy. and it is a path for opportunity. but i am also fully aware that there are a lot of substandard public schools.

but part of the reason for that is that policymakers and local politicians will not fund schools in poor areas that take care of poor children to the level that they need to do. and you could get me going on this because the corridor of shame right here in south carolina, you get on their and you can see schools -- there and you can see schools that are literally falling apart. i have been in some of those schools. i have seen the terrible physical conditions. that is an outrage. it is a rebuke to who we are as americans, to send any child to a school that you wouldn't send your own child to. and so, we have a lot of work to do to make sure that public schools serve people, but that doesn't mean we also provide options within the system so that parents can find what they think might work best for their kid. mr. martin: we have a question here. do we have a question? >> graduating from university,

our first thought as a senior as that we have two avenues, grad school or the workforce. the workforce is mostly to pay back loans and staff that we have as students. you are threatening to lessen the gap between minimum wage and the top payers. my question is, we also put a cap on the top or will the waterfalls keep going upwards yet -- you sen. clinton: i want to be able to refinance everyone student debt and save thousands of dollars. the amount you have to pay back will be manageable for you. because, what is happening now is young people graduate with all of this that, and you obviously have to go into the workforce, because you have to pay it back. i want to put an end date to the debt. there has to be an end date. i also want to give more young people to go into income contingency repayment programs like i had and my husband had.

we had loans that we had to pay them back as a percentage of income, not as a fixed interest rate. we will get the cost of student debt down, but the other problem is we need to get the pay of people who are in the workforce up. it is not going up. that was one of the first point s i made. we have recovered a lot of jobs, millions and millions of jobs. we are down to 5% unemployment. but, hey has not yet been -- but pay has not yet been rising. so, we have to do more to get pay to go up and there are obvious things to do like raise the minimum wage. then, that usually has an upward impact on wages going up the scale. i want more companies to engage in profit sharing, because their employees helped to create the profits and i want to see it go not just to the top. we're going to close loopholes and we're going to make sure that people were making huge salaries pay their fair share in taxes. we're going to go after the

problem of wages, not rising, so that you can get your debt down and your income up. mr. martin: question right here. >> in 1989, we pass legislation by congress to ballot the savings and loans. the president bailed out the banks. in 1989, we said that the banks had to create community reinvestment, which is an expansion of that legislation. as i listen to martin talk about what banks have done in terms of collecting those properties, since the payout, very little has been done for community reinvestment. we usedis an example when congress passed the community reinvestment act. what will you do to get these banks back moving to invest back in our communities? sen. clinton: great question. i believe in the community reinvestment program.

again, it is something that democrats have had to defend against republican attacks for decades now. there are good examples of it working, but increasingly in later years, it has not. there are two approaches, one, the treasury department and the bank regulators need to ensure that banks are meeting their obligations under community reinvestment. there are a lot of good programs that we can point to. if they do not know what to do, we can show them what to do and what will work to create economic opportunities. secondly, you mentioned a bank that i worked with in arkansas to start the arkansas development corporation. because, i think that in addition to getting conventional banks to do what they can, we need some more of these development banks like south shore, and what we did in arkansas has had a real positive affects. the final thing i will say about

this -- there's a big fight going on in washington about the dodd frank bill and the rules that it placed on the banking community, primarily aimed at the biggest banks, that were contributors to some of the problems that we have, let the -- like the mortgage and other problems that we were talking about earlier. a lot of community banks say that those rules fell on us, too. we are just a small community or regional bank. i want to -- without giving any relief to the big banks, because i do think that they need to be regulated so they do not get us in trouble again -- i want to provide some opportunities for community banks to be able to once more, be partners and -- partners in community reinvestment. those are my approaches. mr. martin: unfortunately many of those banks in chicago went out of business. mrs. clinton: it was during the great recession that south shore went out of business. >> i'm a junior here at the university, with more states legalizing marijuana for recreational and legal use, what

is your plan of attack on the federal level? sen. clinton: i believe that states are taking this step. there is that great phrase attributed to i think roosevelt, that states are the laboratories of democracy. i want to see how it works before we do a national plan from the federal government, because i think there is a lot for us to learn. when i do want is for us to support research into medical marijuana, because a lot more states have passed medical marijuana than have legalized marijuana. we have two different experiences, or even experiments , going on right now. the problem with medical marijuana is that there are a lot of anecdotal evidence about how well it works for certain conditions, but we have not done any research. why? it is considered a schedule one drug, so we cannot do research in it. i want to move it from schedule one to schedule two, so that researchers at universities and

national institute of health can start researching what is the best way to use it? how much a dose does somebody need? how does interact with other medications? we are going to have a lot of states setting up marijuana dispensaries so that people who have some kind of medical need are getting marijuana -- we need to know what the quality of it is, how much should you take, what you avoid if you are taking other medications? that is how i'm currently thinking about it. >> speaking of science and research, if you are president, will you push for a dramatic increase in federal funding for a cure for sickle cell anemia? sen. clinton: amen. yes i will. sickle cell anemia -- how may people here know people with it? oh my gosh. it is a devastating disease. i have several -- i know several people. in fact, the other day, well actually it was last week, i was at the naacp banquet in

charleston, and a young woman in high school, gave a tribute, then she came over and she talked to me. she was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia when she was a very young child. she has been in and out of hospitals, and she now goes to the medical center in charleston to get transfusions. every month. i have another friend, a young lawyer, who has sickle cell anemia, and she is really, really martin works really, -- really really smart, and she works really, really hard, and the chance to go to the hospital. this is a devastating disease. so yes, i think we need to put more money and more time and more effort into figuring out how we're going to finally sure and and -- cure and and sickle -- and end sickle cell anemia. >> good afternoon, mr. martin and secretary clinton. when i had the pleasure of meeting you a few minutes ago, you mentioned you were a girl scout.

what did you learn while scouting that you would use to be a successful president? sen. clinton: such a great question. let's give this young man a round of applause. [applause] sen. clinton: i did. i told him that i was a scout. i was a girl scout through high school. i learned a lot. in addition to the little merit badge things that you earn, which he has some of his merit badges on his uniform -- i learned about teamwork. i learned about cooperating with other people. i learned how important it is that when you say you're going to do something that you do everything that you can do keep your word. and do it. i learned about how scouting has for so many decades now helped young women and young men learn things that they might not have otherwise learned. my family was not a camping family. we drove every year from chicago to pennsylvania to see my grandparents, and we slept in the car.

we were not into the forests and the woods and all of that. so i learned specific things as well as general values and character traits. that i think are really important. scouting has made a big difference and. -- big difference in. mr. martin: since he has a uniform on, if you're are a veteran or in the military, we stand up. -- please stand up. [applause] mr. martin: stay standing. stay standing. secretary, a few weeks ago, you are doing an interview and you talked about the v.a. scandal not being as widespread as it was reported. typically, when the president appoints a secretary of veterans affairs, it is one of the last appointments. i believe that if we care for our troops that we will make that just as important as an ag or defense secretary are secretary of state.

what is your commitment to ensuring that the department of veterans affairs is the best hetero agency, and will you make -- the best federal agency and , will you make that be a fundamental priority if you are president of the united states? sen. clinton: the answer is yes. what i said a few weeks ago is that there are certainly systemic problems with the va. they should be fixed. nobody should tolerate them. it is an outrage if anybody has been either mistreated or left untreated by the v.a.. but i also believe that the v.a. has done good things. the republicans are always trying to privatize everything. privatize education. privatize social security. privatize medicare. and yes, privatize the v.a. i will fix it and i will appoint somebody with proven management experience who will read out those who should not be there in the first place, and programs not working. take what is good about the ba

va and make sure that it is available to all of our veterans. that is our goal. [applause] mr. martin: i have always said that broke is broke whether you are broke white or broke black. it is interesting when we have a discussion in america about poverty, it is always a black face. if you are president, how will you lead or drive a conversation to get white america, who is broke, to understand that your education and your health and your lack of economic access is the same as african-americans and others, and how do you see it happening? rural committees have the same fundamental problems as inner-city communities, but they somehow think that they are totally different. sen. clinton: that is a fair point. mr. martin: i don't think anyone else will ask that question. sen. clinton: it is a fair point. because, poverty is debilitating, no matter where it

happens or who it affects. there is such a lack of understanding in our country about the number of poor white folks, and we just had a steady -- a study come out that said, poor white middle-aged americans, without a high school education, are dying at a higher rate than they have ever done before. addiction, alcoholism, suicide. poverty is poverty. there is a great idea that congressman clyburn has the forward called 10, 20, 30. 10% of federal funds would go to communities where 20% of the people are living in poverty and have done so for more than 30 years. mr. martin: two thirds of those counties are republican counties. sen. clinton: and predominately

white. as jim clyburn pointed out as he described it to me this would be , a recipe for dealing with poverty everywhere, based on the numbers. if you are living in an impoverished generational situation, then you need help. the government should not be turning its back on you. i'm in favor of empowerment. one of the programs that my husband put into place, the new market tax credit, was used to help build up poor, rural communities, to provide economic opportunities. it has been allowed to lapse by their public and congress. there are tools at our disposal. but, the point that you make is an especially important one, we need to be talking about this, so that the caricatures and stereotypes that are too often flooding the media, are for once and all retired. poor is poor.

mr. martin: what would you do about those communities? what kennedy did, going to the delta, gave a different view. all the cameras that followed brings people into those areas, and assess america, these , are broke white people who are poor and this is what poverty looks like, not some black single mother in chicago or detroit. mr. martin: they went -- sen. clinton: they went to appalachia as well. let me just point out that a lot of republican governors are not expanding medicaid, including right here in south carolina. that is leaving hundreds of thousands of poor people, black and white just to the mercy of the emergency room. there is no system for them to be able to get the health care that they need, and if you compare -- i was in louisiana not so long ago, and the prior democratic governor in arkansas expanded medicaid, got a special waiver from the federal

government to do it in a way that he could get it through his legislature, but the fact is that hundreds of thousands of poor arkansas residents got it. across the border in louisiana, their governor running for president would not do it. hundreds of thousands of people were left out. i do not know how you justify that, especially, since the federal government is paying 100% of the cost until, in a few years, they will pay 90% of the cost. because what people to be well. -- we want people to be well. you talk about this recent study that i mention, where you have middle-aged white folks killing themselves, getting addicted to drugs and alcohol, not getting help for mental illness or substance abuse -- that is a health problem. people are often times, and i enabled areas especially, -- in rural areas especially, not

as reachable through health systems. i think we have to look at this from the perspective of what we do to make our country healthier, and the people most in need of that are poor people. wherever they live and whoever they are. i feel passionately about this, as i said -- i first job out of law school was with the children's defense fund, started by the woman from south carolina. i have -- my first job for the children's defense fund was coming to south carolina to do an investigation about juveniles in adult jails. some familiar? we make progress, but then we kind of fall back. you cannot grow weary, doing the work that is necessary to help people have dignity and develop their own potential. that is what health is about. if you do not have that, you don't have anything. mr. martin: last question for me. black women, stand up. secretary clinton if you become president of the united states, and if you had to appoint some into the supreme court, which you a point a black woman to the

-- will you put a black woman to the supreme court? [applause] sen. clinton: do we have some candidates here? i will certainly consider people who have the energy and the intellect and the experience to be on the supreme court. and probably on the younger side, because i want them to be there for a long time. [applause] mr. martin: we have a whole list. it would be good to see a sister on the supreme court. i am just saying. all right, we have one question over here. could you stand up? go ahead. shout it out. [indiscernible] sen. clinton: yes i do. [indiscernible]

mr. martin: just take a picture. [indiscernible] [applause] >> something so simple. then bill came to south carolina. i was in the audience. are you trying to meet chelsea next? what is the question? >> we were talking about youth empowerment. we were talking about youth empowerment. i now see as part of your

platform, youth empowerment. i also heard you said today, grassroots, small children. what is your plan when elected president, that you have for identifying like other countries, the cream of the crop and channeling those children from children to be prepared when these job opportunities open up? sen. clinton: that is a really good question. if you have not seen one of those bibles, i recommend that you do. it is such an extraordinary part of south carolina history. i thank you. as you can tell, my husband was jealous. which is ok. look, i think you have to start with the families and the parents of little children. and i want to do more through communities, three churches, -- through churches through , other institutions to help every parent understand that he

and she are the child's first teachers. and to do what we know can work to get those children better prepared for school. i think talent is universal, but opportunity is not. there are a lot of really smart kids who don't get the chances that they deserve. that is why we need universal prekindergarten, because we need to start with kids who really deserve that extra help. so when they get to school, they are better prepared to learn. i do think what you are saying makes sense and it goes back to the point we were talking about earlier about schools. when i was first lady of arkansas, we did a very comprehensive overhaul of our school system. changing the curriculum, putting more demanding requirements in, but we also recognize that it was difficult in a rural state like arkansas, and a rural state like south carolina, to provide

all of the opportunities for everybody, everywhere. so i helped to start the arkansas school format and -- arkansas school for math and science. it is a boarding school, a public boarding school, so that young kids interested in science and technology, engineering and mathematics, can apply to go there if they are in a small district that does not have the courses that they are looking for. i would like to see us do more of that across the country. there are some states that have done this, some of them do it for performing arts. i started with science and technology. but, there are other kinds of studies -- the cousin you have -- because when you have as many small towns and rural areas, it is not possible to provide everything in person, which is why we also need to do more through technology and online learning, but you a few -- but if you are in a poor school and you do not have the computers or the tablets and don't even have

the school wired and don't get high-speed internet, it is pretty hard. your kids are going to fall behind. my highest priority is, let's raise everybody up, and let's provide some special opportunities for kids who want to go further in the areas of their expertise or what they want to learn. ok? mr. martin: final comment. or was that it? sen. clinton: let me thank you for doing this. and let me think news one and -- let me thank news one and everybody who is a part of this, and especially to the university for hosting us. [applause] sen. clinton: i gave the commencement here act in 2007, -- back in and i'm so honored to 2007, be back. i am told that some of the state elected officials were here -- i want to be a good partner. i want to end by saying this. a president can do a lot and

should. and i will work as hard as i know how to find common ground, even with people that i don't agree with politically, because if we can find common ground on something important, we should go forward together. but, i also want to be a partner to those making change in state legislatures in communities across a state like this. because, a president can also do things that are not in the formal job description. i can convene groups and want to know what is the best way to improve job training for advanced manufacturing. we will get people who are doing and know how to do it together and will come up with a plan to try to sell everybody about doing that. so, convening, catalyzing change, neck and people up like -- connecting people up, like the arkansas bank corporation, which i hope to start. let's find out why it succeeded and why south shore did not, and

how we could do more of what works in communities like those here in south carolina. and i want to be a coordinator so that we get people to really understand what we are capable of doing, no matter where we are. do not wait for somebody in washington. make the political demands, what you need from washington. try to hold your elected officials accountable. if we could get voter registration up and south -- up in south carolina, your elected officials would look different than they look right now. in many parts of the state, and so, we have to work in a partnership, from the grassroots up, and from the top down, and we have to give more people the tools to make the best decisions for their own lives. that is when i grow doing, that that isrew up doing, what i learned to do, and that is what i will do as your president. [applause] mr. martin: all right.

that is it for us. do you know how to wobble? sen. clinton: i don't. mr. martin: you just lost the black vote right there. get the black folks on your staff to teach you how to wobble. mrs. clinton: who can show me? don't be shy. on a black network we do things a little differently. mr. martin: should i put my ipod on? i have music. [laughter] mr. martin: you know i will put it on. secretary clinton, and is a pleasure. a round of applause, democratic presidential candidate, secretary hillary clinton. [applause]

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