In 2000, Hillary Promised Jobs to New York State, But the Jobs Never Materialized

[amborin]

Now, 16 years later, Mrs. Clinton is again promising to bring jobs back to the region as she courts the people who helped secure her first election victory. But this time her message is colliding with a surprisingly potent threat from the left and doubts about her ability to deliver.

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“Her work as senator in upstate New York can serve as a blueprint for how she would seek to create the good-paying jobs of the future as president,” said Mrs. Clinton’s senior policy director, Jake Sullivan.

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That’s what we need to do across upstate — indeed, across America,” she said, vowing to be the “president who brings manufacturing back to upstate New York and America.”

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But Mrs. Clinton’s critics say that she failed to deliver on the centerpiece of her 2000 push — a promise to bring 200,000 jobs to New York — and many cities upstate have higher unemployment than when she became a senator. The number of private-sector jobs in upstate New York remained virtually stagnant in the eight years Mrs. Clinton served in the Senate, according to state Department of Labor statistics.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/us/politics/hillary-clinton-again-looks-upstate-for-win-in-new-york.html

[JudyM]

1. Hopefully the NY voters will be the pragmatic realists this time around.

[blm]

2. To be fair, in 2000 we were headed in a solid direction economically, till Bush took over

and used 9-11 and the corpmedia to reign supreme over the nation and its economy.

What do you think Obama and Dems in Congress facing an intransigent GOP have been working to repair the last 6 years?

I voted for Sanders as iI believe in logical, common sense solutions. Which also means I will NOT shun accuracy and exclude context when considering posts like this.

[amborin]

4. many of the jobs disappeared b/c of FTAs; they were shipped overseas

[Autumn]

3. Silly proles. It was her job she was talking about creating then, same as now.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. And who was (s)elected President that year?

Under GWB, we had some really rotten years with rising unemployment figures nationwide.



I can hardly hold her responsible for that.

[Politicalboi]

6. Sure they did

All those new intern jobs for Wall Street. The rebuilding of the WTC, More reporters to report what Hillary is doing every day till she's nominated president in 2008. Have I left anything out?

[StevieM]

7. That's because the Gore presidency never materialized. (eom)

[MisterP]

8. right--neoliberalism doesn't work, and the people promising a million new jobs with each FTA

have decided to hit North Haverbrook and Ogdenville again