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Hillary Clinton Lays Out Her Economic Agenda

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gives a speech on the economy after touring Futuramic Tool & Engineering, in Warren, Michigan on Thursday. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gives a speech on the economy after touring Futuramic Tool & Engineering, in Warren, Michigan on Thursday. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

On Thursday, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton delivered an address in Detroit laying out her economic development plan. Clinton's speech follows Trump's address in Detroit on Monday. We talked to Jacob Hacker, director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University about that speech. Now, we're breaking down Hillary Clinton's speech and what it would mean for the country's economy and its workers.

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Diana Furchtgott-Roth, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor, and former chief of staff of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers. She tweets @FurchtgottRoth.

Simon Johnson, professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT. He is the co-founder of the economics blog BaselineScenario.com and has served as the chief economist for the IMF.

This segment aired on August 11, 2016.

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