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Hillary Rodham Clinton* @HillaryClinton: Proud to announce 3 more #JobOne <https://twitter.com/hashtag/JobOne?src=hash> commitments at #CGI <https://twitter.com/hashtag/CGI?src=hash> to create more job pathways for youth- Join us athttp://www.clintonfoundation.org/jobone <http://t.co/ISwCKp5L1S> @ClintonGlobal <https://twitter.com/ClintonGlobal> [9/23/14, 7:27 p.m. EDT <https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/514556684325650432>] *Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: .@HillaryClinton <https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton> "not only has the right message, she has the perfect message." James Carville http://thehill.com/opinion/james-carville/218698-james-carville-right-message-matters-and-clintons-got-it … <http://t.co/5bKF4CxaXv> [9/24/14, 10:06 a.m. EDT <https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/514777970758926336>] *Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: Sec. Clinton visited every country in Southeast Asia, renewing & strengthening ties #HRC365 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/HRC365?src=hash> http://usat.ly/MqPu2N <http://t.co/AFNd1ML1WU>[9/23/14, 12:31 p.m. EDT <https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/514451891120402432>] *Headlines:* *Bloomberg: “Hillary Clinton Leads $600 Million Effort for Girls in Education” <http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-09-24/hillary-clinton-leads-600-million-effort-for-girls-in-education>* “Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, along with the Brookings Institution, are spearheading an almost $600 million effort to help disadvantaged girls, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southwest Asia, attend secondary school.” *Time: “After Boko Haram: Hillary Clinton Promises Education For 14 Million Girls” <http://time.com/3425011/hillary-clinton-education-boko-haram-julia-gillard/>* “The Clinton Global Initiative and Brookings will evaluate the progress of the organizations towards their goals over the course of the next five years. Any government that wants to join the effort can.” *Bloomberg: “Hillary Clinton Hints at Platform to Support Working Moms” <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-24/hillary-clinton-hints-at-platform-to-support-working-moms.html>* “Hillary Clinton said today that women shouldn’t have to choose between motherhood and advancing their careers, a theme that may resurface as part of a platform if she runs for president in 2016.” *Associated Press: “Hillary Clinton Pushes School Program for Girls” <http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CLINTON_GLOBAL_INITIATIVE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>* “Hillary Rodham Clinton announced a $600 million effort Wednesday to enroll girls in secondary schools around the globe, aiming to address security and access problems in the developing world.” *New York Daily News: “Hillary Clinton calls for paid family leave for working mothers” <http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/hillary-clinton-calls-paid-family-leave-working-mothers-blog-entry-1.1951134>* “Speaking on one of her core issues of women's equality, Hillary Clinton said Wednesday the U.S. must work to provide paid family leave for new mothers to ensure women’s equality in the workforce.” *New York Times: First Draft: “At Clintons’ Event, a Really Close Watch on Reporters” <http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2014/09/24/?entry=577>* “An escort is required wherever we go, lest one of us with our yellow press badges wind up somewhere where attendants with an esteemed blue badge are milling around.” *Washington Post blog: She The People: “Cleaner, more efficient cookstoves should be on front burner of women’s needs in developing countries” <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/09/24/cleaner-more-efficient-cookstoves-should-be-on-front-burner-of-womens-needs-in-developing-countries/>* “In November, the alliance holds the first Cookstoves Future Summit: Fueling Markets, Catalyzing Action, Changing Lives in New York. The invitation-only summit will be co-chaired by Clinton, who’s the honorary chair of the Alliance Leadership Council.” *Associated Press: “NYC Mayor Steps Onto Bigger Political States” <http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NYC_MAYOR_BIGGER_STAGES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>* "De Blasio now is mentioned as a leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party as 2016 approaches. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the strong favorite for her party's presidential nomination if she decides to run, is closely linked to him. He managed her 2000 Senate campaign." *The Hill blog: Ballot Box: “RNC hits Hillary Clinton for ties to Goldman Sachs” <http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/218761-rnc-hits-hillary-clinton-for-ties-to-goldman-sachs>* “The Republican National Committee released a video on Wednesday with the point of showing how well the CEO of Goldman Sachs and Hillary Clinton know each other, echoing a criticism usually voiced on the left.” *Washington Free Beacon: “Wall Street Gets to Bill and Hillary” <http://freebeacon.com/politics/wall-street-gets-to-clintons/>* [Subtitle:] “After summer in Hamptons, Clintons adopt Wall Street tune on inversions” *Articles:* *Bloomberg: “Hillary Clinton Leads $600 Million Effort for Girls in Education” <http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-09-24/hillary-clinton-leads-600-million-effort-for-girls-in-education>* By Janet Lorin September 24, 2014 Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, along with the Brookings Institution, are spearheading an almost $600 million effort to help disadvantaged girls, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southwest Asia, attend secondary school. Hillary Clinton announced the effort today at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, which with the Center for Universal Education at Brookings helped draw participation. More than 30 groups have committed to the project. The money is expected to aid about 14 million girls in the next five years. It will establish programs to help them enter secondary schools in a safe environment, improve the quality of learning, complete secondary education and support them through universities and into the workforce. Each group -- including nonprofit organizations like UNICEF, the country of Nepal and corporations such as Pearson Plc (PSON) and MasterCard Inc. -- will decide how its own money is spent to achieve the effort’s goals. “We’ve made progress at the primary level,” said Rachel Vogelstein, director of women and girls programs at the Clinton Foundation. “This initiative addresses the unfinished business in girls’ education, which is progress at the secondary level.” The idea for the project came from Julia Gillard, the former Australian prime minister, in her role as a fellow with Brookings, said Jennifer Klein, senior adviser for the Foundation’s women and girls programs. Gillard, the first woman to lead Australia, was defeated in a leadership vote last year. *Girls’ Education* Gillard, who is also board chair of Washington-based nonprofit group Global Partnership for Education, approached former U.S. Secretary of State Clinton more than a year ago with the idea to work on “second-generation” girls’ education issues, Klein said. The result is called Collective Harnessing Ambition & Resources for Girls Education, or CHARGE. For groups to participate, they must have already raised 75 percent of the money they plan to commit, Klein said. “Each partner will determine the needs of the country where they are working,” Klein said. For example, a group called BRAC, founded in 1972 as Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, will work in eight countries to teach life skills, financial literacy and microfinance, among other initiatives. The government of Nepal will provide bicycles for girls to get to school. The Clinton Global Initiative, which began Sunday night and concludes today, is an annual gathering of political and business leaders, philanthropists and celebrity activists. Some of the speakers included World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim; actor Leonardo DiCaprio; President Barack Obama; and Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors Co. *Time: “After Boko Haram: Hillary Clinton Promises Education For 14 Million Girls” <http://time.com/3425011/hillary-clinton-education-boko-haram-julia-gillard/>* By Eliana Dockterman September 24, 2014, 9:34 a.m. EDT [Subtitle:] Clinton and former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced $600 million in private and public funding for global education On Wednesday morning, Hillary Clinton and Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a new Clinton Global Initiative commitment with the Center on Universal Education at the Brookings Institute for girls’ education called CHARGE (The Collaborative for Harnessing Ambition and Resources for Girls Education). The initiative will include 30 other partners, including governments like the United States and organizations from the private sector, committing $600 million to reach 14 million girls around the world in the next five years. “It’s time to both celebrate the progress we’ve made and redouble our efforts,” said Clinton at the announcement. Gillard, a fellow at the Brookings Institute, approached Secretary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton a year ago to work together on the initiative. “I think across the world, as we talk about women in developing countries, there’s been increasing recognition that empowering women and girls is a key change agent for development. There have been some truly shocking incidents that have caused us to have tears in our eyes and sharply intake our breath—what happened to Malala, what has happened with the Nigerian schoolgirls—that powerfully remind us that in some part of the world, getting an education is still a very dangerous thing for a girl,” Gillard told TIME. “It’s being targeted because it’s powerful. Education is powerful, which is why some people want to stop it and why we should feel so passionate about assuring that it occurs.” Up until now, world leaders have focused on enrolling girls in primary school at the same rate as boys. And though the rate of female enrollment in primary school has risen from less than half to nearly 80% in the last 25 years, issues of quality and safety still persist. The Girls CHARGE initiative aims to address what they are calling a “second generation” of girls’ issues especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and South West Asia. And while incidents like the kidnapping in Nigeria of more than 200 school girls by the radical group Boko Haram are extreme, they are emblematic of the harsh realities of educating girls in some parts of the world. CHARGE has five main goals: 1. Keep girls in school 2. Ensure school safety and security 3. Improve quality of learning for girls 4. Support transitions from and out of school 5. Support girls’ education leaders/workers in developing countries to fulfill these goals Partners of CHARGE are taking different steps in specific regions to reach these goals. The government of Nepal is committing $29 million to the cause and providing bicycles to girls to ensure girls can get to and from school. The BRAC organization is establishing 8,000 adolescent girl clubs in Bangladesh by 2019 to provide safe spaces for girls, among other efforts. The Clinton Global Initiative and Brookings will evaluate the progress of the organizations towards their goals over the course of the next five years. Any government that wants to join the effort can. Developing nations must work towards gender equality in education to improve their economy: Educated women add to family income by working, and their children are more likely to become educated themselves. But those girls most desperately in need live in countries where the governments don’t want to cooperate with initiatives like this one. “That’s obviously a huge challenge,” Rachel Vogelstein of the Clinton Foundation’s No Ceilings Initiative told TIME. “We’re hoping to work with our partners and civil society organizations to cultivate leaders on a grassroots level in those locations.” But even as Clinton and Gillard look to empower women across the globe, they recognize that there are still equality gaps in the Western World as well. Both Gillard and Clinton have faced misogyny throughout their political careers. Gillard points out that women in countries like the United States and Australia cannot settle and must still fight for progress: “My own perspective is that in many places around the world—Australia, here in the United States—after the big push of the second wave of feminism in our own nations, there was the assumption made that naturally gender change was happening and everything would equalize. I think in recent years there’s been a realization that no, there are still problems in our own nations, including domestic violence, that require a dedicated focus and approach. The dialogue both in Australia and the United States must still include questions of political leadership, corporate leadership, civil society leadership where doors still need to be opened for women.” *Bloomberg: “Hillary Clinton Hints at Platform to Support Working Moms” <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-24/hillary-clinton-hints-at-platform-to-support-working-moms.html>* By Jonathan Allen September 24, 2014, 11:06 a.m. EDT Hillary Clinton said today that women shouldn’t have to choose between motherhood and advancing their careers, a theme that may resurface as part of a platform if she runs for president in 2016. “The absence of paid leave is a strong signal to women, and particularly mothers, that society and our economy don’t value being a mother,” the former U.S. secretary of state said. “The absence of quality, affordable childcare -- and affordable and quality have to go together -- is a very big factor in limiting and sometimes ending women’s participation in the workforce.” Clinton, who spoke during a panel discussion with philanthropist Melinda Gates at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual conference in New York, has increasingly embraced advocacy for women and girls as a political plus while she considers a second presidential bid. Many of her closest friends and advisers lamented her decision to play down her gender during her losing 2008 presidential campaign. Now, Clinton is calling attention to obstacles to women becoming and remaining full participants in the economy as well as possible remedies. “If we did more on child care and we did more on paid family leave, particularly for new mothers, we would be sending the right signals,” she said. Clinton added that society must find a way to ensure that women are “not being penalized” for becoming mothers. “We still have a lot of cultural, customary, even attitudinal, psychological barriers” to equality, she said. *Associated Press: “Hillary Clinton Pushes School Program for Girls” <http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CLINTON_GLOBAL_INITIATIVE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>* By Ken Thomas September 24, 2014, 11:32 a.m. EDT Hillary Rodham Clinton announced a $600 million effort Wednesday to enroll girls in secondary schools around the globe, aiming to address security and access problems in the developing world. The former secretary of state unveiled the plan at the Clinton Global Initiative to help 14 million girls typically between the ages of 11 and 16 to attend school. The initiative, carried out via her family's foundation, aims to improve the quality, safety and security at schools around the world. "We know when girls have equal access to quality education in both primary and secondary schools, cycles of poverty are broken, economies grow, glass ceilings crack and potential is unleashed," Clinton said. Clinton has promoted the advancement of women and girls around the world through an initiative at the foundation called "No Ceilings." The former first lady and New York senator is expected to announce by early next year whether she will seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. Philanthropic groups and non-governmental organizations have sought to address the gap in secondary education and security concerns for young girls in the aftermath of the kidnapping of dozens of young women by Boko Haram in Nigeria. The issue received global attention following the 2012 attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who received world acclaim after she was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating gender equality and education for women. Clinton's foundation noted that in sub-Saharan Africa, 1.5 million fewer girls than boys attend secondary schools. The initiative, which will be led by former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, includes more than 30 partners, including the United States, Nepal, the United Kingdom and Discovery Communications. *New York Daily News: “Hillary Clinton calls for paid family leave for working mothers” <http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/hillary-clinton-calls-paid-family-leave-working-mothers-blog-entry-1.1951134>* By Annie Karni September 24, 2014, 1:02 p.m. EDT Speaking on one of her core issues of women's equality, Hillary Clinton said Wednesday the U.S. must work to provide paid family leave for new mothers to ensure women’s equality in the workforce. “The absence of quality affordable childcare is a very big factor in limiting and sometimes ending women’s participation in the workforce,” Clinton said at a panel discussion with philanthropist Melinda Gates, moderated by New York Times Upshot editor David Leonhardt, at the annual Clinton Global Initiative conference. “The absence of paid leave is a strong signal to women and particularly mothers that the society and our economy don’t value being a mother.” The Family and Medical Leave Act was signed into law by former President Bill Clinton more than 20 years ago and offers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave. But the U.S. lags behind other high-income countries in not offering paid leave. "If we did more for childcare and we did more on paid family leave, particularly for new mothers, we would be sending the right signals,” Clinton said. But she said life is better than it was for American women 20 years ago. “When I was a young woman, there were colleges I couldn’t go to, scholarships I couldn’t apply for, jobs that had basically invisible, but very clear signs saying ‘no woman need apply,’” Clinton said. That has improved over the past two decades, but women still lag in their earning potential compared to men, she said. “We’ve gone from 77 cents to 78 cents compared to a dollar [earned by men],” she said. “That’s hardly groundbreaking progress.” *New York Times: First Draft: “At Clintons’ Event, a Really Close Watch on Reporters” <http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2014/09/24/?entry=577>* By Amy Chozick September 24, 2014, 12:33 p.m. EDT Charitable commitments have been made. Important topics like Ebola and elephant poaching have been discussed. World leaders from President Obama to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan have convened. But, for me, perhaps the person who stands out is the friendly 20-something press aide who the Clinton Global Initiative tasked with escorting me to the restroom. She waited outside the stall in the ladies’ room at the Sheraton Hotel, where the conference is held each year. Security, foundation aides told me, dictates that the hordes of journalists, many of them from overseas news outlets, be cloistered in a basement at the Sheraton. An elaborate maze of security barricades separates where reporters enter and roam (though not freely) from the lobby of the hotel, where actual guests enter. An escort is required wherever we go, lest one of us with our yellow press badges wind up somewhere where attendants with an esteemed blue badge are milling around. When asked about the practice, Craig Minassian, a spokesman for the initiative, directed me to a press release about American Standard’s Flush for Good campaign to improve sanitation for three million people in the developing world. “Since you are so interested in bathrooms and C.G.I,” Mr. Minassian said. On Wednesday morning, ahead of a panel discussion at which Hillary Rodham Clinton introduced the event’s biggest commitment, to get Nigerian girls access to secondary education (called Charge, short for the Collaborative for Harnessing Ambition and Resources for Girls’ Education), several dozen reporters lined up to pass through metal detectors when several people jumped the queue. “They’re with Katie Couric!” a press aide explained when a journalist (O.K., me) complained. (Ms. Couric, they later explained, would be moderating a panel later that morning with Chelsea Clinton.) It wasn’t always like this. While there were always metal detectors and heightened security at the conference, which typically takes place during the United Nations General Assembly and includes speeches by Mr. Obama, Bill Clinton and others, reporters could roam relatively freely until last year, when interest in and scrutiny of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation spiked amid speculation that Mrs. Clinton would run for president in 2016. *Washington Post blog: She The People: “Cleaner, more efficient cookstoves should be on front burner of women’s needs in developing countries” <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/09/24/cleaner-more-efficient-cookstoves-should-be-on-front-burner-of-womens-needs-in-developing-countries/>* By Diana Reese September 24, 2014, 8:37 a.m. EDT American moms — and yes, I’m sometimes guilty — complain that cooking dinner can be a burden, but we’ve got it good as we debate the merits of a smooth surface cooktop versus traditional burners or electric versus gas ranges. “Little do we realize as painful as cooking seems to us, it is nowhere near as painful and harmful as it is for our sisters in the developing world,” said Radha Muthiah, executive director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, launched by then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2010. For 3 billion of the world’s people, cooking can be downright dangerous, according to the World Health Organization: Four million premature deaths a year, primarily of women and children, are blamed on exposure to toxic smoke from cooking fires and rudimentary stoves that burn wood, coal and “biomass” — stuff like animal dung and crop waste. Various types of cancer, low birth weights for babies and even cardiovascular disease have all been linked to the indoor pollution caused by cooking over open fires or leaky stoves. Then there’s the increased risk of burns; 307,000 of the 330,000 people who die from burn injuries each year are from developing countries, according to ReSurge International, which provides reconstructive surgery for the poor around the globe. These primitive methods of cooking also impact the environment by creating 25 percent of the world’s black carbon emissions (commonly called “soot“) and destroying forests. Muthiah described to me the typical day of a woman in rural Kenya or India: The woman will rise as early as 4 a.m. so she can collect fuel — be it wood or animal or crop waste — “anything they can burn.” Because of deforestation, women sometimes have to walk for several hours to pick up enough wood, putting themselves at risk for animal attacks and other violence. A daughter might come along to help, missing out on school. They may carry up to 60 kilograms (132 pounds) of fuel on their heads or in baskets. Women often struggle with this chore three or four times a week, Muthiah said, because cooking over an open fire or with rudimentary stoves is such an inefficient use of fuel. “It’s a real timesink for women,” she said, taking up one-third to one-half of a woman’s 24-hour day. For the urban women in developing nations, the issue is economic. They can afford to buy only small quantities of fuel at a time, making it more expensive, Muthiah said, as they spend up to 40 percent of their daily household income on fuel. More efficient stoves requiring less fuel would save time and money for rural and urban women. That savings of time gives them the opportunity to pursue other activities, whether it’s walking with their children to school or earning a livelihood — empowering women to take charge of their lives. This is a big week for the alliance, what with the Clinton Global Initiative 10th Annual Meeting and the United Nations Climate Summit 2014 in New York. In November, the alliance holds the first Cookstoves Future Summit: Fueling Markets, Catalyzing Action, Changing Lives in New York. The invitation-only summit will be co-chaired by Clinton, who’s the honorary chair of the Alliance Leadership Council. The strategy of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves differs from previous efforts to simply donate cookstoves to families around the world without a good idea of their needs and sometimes without providing education, training or service. Instead, the alliance focuses on creating a global market for clean cookstoves and clean fuels. “The consumer needs to be involved,” Muthiah pointed out. “We need to view the user as a consumer and understand what attributes [of stoves and fuels] are valuable,” rather than seeing the end user as “a passive beneficiary.” So the alliance has partnered with public, private and nonprofit interests to work on every facet of creating that market, including the design, manufacturing, assembly, distribution, sales and even after-sales service. In many cases, that manufacturing and assembly are done locally, Muthiah said. It’s not “a one-size-fits-all solution.” Latin American women often stand while cooking and want a large top burner to cook multiple tortillas and a pot of beans, while African women sit down and need a simmer button for long-term cooking, Muthiah said, requiring different types of stoves. In the southern state of Kerala in India, 97 percent of homes have some access to electricity, so they can move directly to stoves using electricity, while rural villages elsewhere in India do not and need stoves powered by other sources of cleaner fuel such as liquified petroleum gas, ethanol, solar and biogas. The alliance has also worked with the International Organization for Standards to develop a rating system for cookstoves, measuring four performance indicators: fuel use, total emissions, indoor emissions and safety. Most families are not aware of the hazards or health implications from their cooking methods, Muthiah said. They don’t realize the possible link between how they cook food and their baby’s low birth weight or their child’s pneumonia. “Awareness is so important,” Muthiah said. “It’s more than half the battle.” But it’s also a process of changing behavior. “We have to show them they can [still] cook the same meals as their mothers and grandmothers cooked” on new stoves, she said. But once women see the statistics and the stories, “they get it,” Muthiah said. “Women are practical all over the world.” They want to figure out how to get a decent cookstove. Some go for the cheaper model they can buy outright, while others look at financing plans. The cost for these safer and more efficient stoves can range from $15 to $150, depending on factors such as fuel type and durability. Some women become marketing and sales agents, turning the cookstove into an income generator. The goal for the alliance is to switch 100 million households to cleaner stoves by the year 2020. It’s a triple win, Muthiah points out, for health, for the environment and for women’s empowerment. “We’re trying to put this issue on the front burner,” she told me. “In this day and age, women should not be cooking this way.” *Associated Press: “NYC Mayor Steps Onto Bigger Political States” <http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NYC_MAYOR_BIGGER_STAGES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>* By Jonathan Lemire September 24, 2014, 1:54 a.m. EDT A speech at the United Nations. A spot next to Al Gore leading a massive climate change march. A prime speaking slot at a political conference in England. Those big stages - all happening within a few days of each other - have become more common for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. His profile is on the rise both nationally and internationally and he is increasingly viewed in political circles as a rising star, particularly in the most liberal wing of the Democratic party. De Blasio's higher profile - partly a concerted effort by his team and partly a byproduct of leading the nation's largest city - has provided him everything from a platform from which to espouse his liberal politics views to potentially setting him up as a valuable surrogate in the 2016 presidential election. "It enhances his power locally, because he becomes more formidable for having achieved this global respect," said Kenneth Sherrill, retired political science professor at Hunter College. "And he's serious about being a spokesman for a national urban agenda." De Blasio's rise has been sudden. A mere 18 months ago, he was a little-known second-tier mayoral candidate. But his campaign soared just as those of other contenders imploded, and after spending his first few months in office solely focused on his legislative agenda, the new mayor began to step beyond the five boroughs. Looking to spread his view of an activist urban government, he attended meetings with U.S. mayors in Dallas and Chicago and later hosted the U.S. Conference of Mayors in New York. He journeyed to Washington to lobby for big cities and attended a White House state dinner. He's hosted various political dignitaries at City Hall and, even on a family vacation to Italy, met with the mayor of Rome. A spokesman for de Blasio said the mayor's focus is his city and dismissed any suggestion that voters could perceive he was more interested in global issues. "Income inequality doesn't stop at a city limit, a state line or a national border," said Phil Walzak, "and by promoting local strategies and building a national urban agenda together, the mayor believes we can create real change for people in New York City, and beyond." This week is de Blasio's biggest step yet onto the global political stage. He marched with Gore and hundreds of thousands of demonstrators on Sunday to lobby the United Nations on climate change and then on Tuesday he addressed the UN's General Assembly on the same topic. On Wednesday, he will speak about progressive values at the Labour Party's annual conference in Manchester, England. His growing stature has been noted in national political circles. De Blasio now is mentioned as a leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party as 2016 approaches. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the strong favorite for her party's presidential nomination if she decides to run, is closely linked to him. He managed her 2000 Senate campaign. Clinton was beaten on the left by Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential primaries and some fear she may be vulnerable there again; a powerful de Blasio could provide some protection. "I think he could be enormously helpful to the Clintons, because a thumbs-up from him will go a long way in progressive circles," said Jeanne Zaino, political science professor at Iona College. Clinton and her husband have stayed close to de Blasio, appearing at his Inauguration and at several events since. Donna Brazile, an adviser to the Clintons, said de Blasio has quickly become a leading voice in the party on addressing income inequality and promoting early childhood education. "His agenda is designed to lift up people who need better jobs, more opportunity and better schools," Brazile said. De Blasio is far from the first New York mayor to become a star beyond his city's borders. Michael Bloomberg used the stature of the office - and his personal fortune - to become a leading voice on climate change, while Rudy Giuliani came to be viewed as a national authority on crime. But de Blasio may not be a household name just yet. Last weekend, he and an aide took a spur of the moment road to trip to Pittsburgh and sat in the stands at a Pirates game. The mayor largely went unnoticed. *The Hill blog: Ballot Box: “RNC hits Hillary Clinton for ties to Goldman Sachs” <http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/218761-rnc-hits-hillary-clinton-for-ties-to-goldman-sachs>* By Peter Sullivan September 24, 2014, 11:39 a.m. EDT The Republican National Committee released a video on Wednesday with the point of showing how well the CEO of Goldman Sachs and Hillary Clinton know each other, echoing a criticism usually voiced on the left. The GOP "rapid response" video, posted on YouTube, is a clip of Clinton inviting Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein on stage at the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in New York on Wednesday. The caption of the video is "Goldman Sachs CEO jokes about how well he knows Hillary Clinton." After Clinton introduces Blankfein, along with two other people, he takes the stage, greets Clinton, and says, "So this isn't the first time we've all met." Blankfein was there to discuss Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Women iniative, which supports women in business around the world. It is not surprising that the RNC is releasing videos critical of Clinton, given that she is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president, but this video makes a point usually heard from liberals. There has long been grumbling on the left that Clinton is too close to Wall Street, leading to speculation that she could face a liberal primary challenger such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Clinton in particular came under fire for speaking at Goldman Sachs in October. In 2012, Democrats were the ones trying portray the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, as out of touch because of his past at the private equity firm Bain Capital. Earlier in the program on Wednesday, Clinton announced an initiative through the Clinton Foundation that will spend $600 million on helping girls attend secondary school around the world. *Washington Free Beacon: “Wall Street Gets to Bill and Hillary” <http://freebeacon.com/politics/wall-street-gets-to-clintons/>* By Brent Scher September 24, 2014, 11:15 a.m. EDT [Subtitle:] After summer in Hamptons, Clintons adopt Wall Street tune on inversions Bill and Hillary Clinton spent the summer in the Hamptons where they would “field thoughts on policy” with Wall Street’s wealthiest as they attended lavish fundraising events. Wall Street seems to have gotten to them. Hillary used her time among Wall Street executives to get the political pulse of the wealthy Democratic donors who could provide the financial backbone of her likely 2016 presidential campaign. One issue she focused on was finding out “what they thought of Mr. Obama’s efforts to eliminate inversions,” according to a report in the New York Times. It appears the Clintons are taking what they heard in the private Hamptons talks to the public stage. Speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York City, Bill Clinton expressed the point of view of corporations that “feel duty bound to pay the lowest taxes they can pay,” according to the New York Times. “Like it or not, this inversion, this is their money,” said Clinton on Tuesday, speaking of companies that have been called “unpatriotic” by President Barack Obama. “We have the highest overall corporate tax rates in the world, and we are now the only [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development] country that also taxes overseas earnings,” said Clinton. “A lot of these executives, even if they wanted to bring the money home, they think this is crazy.” Clinton also took some blame for creating a tax system that is forcing companies to seek out lower tax rates in other countries. “I should make full disclosure here, I signed and supported the bill that raised the corporate taxes in America to the level they are now,” said Clinton. These statements by former President Clinton reflect the type of message that Hillary Clinton may adopt for her presidential run, according to insiders who say that her message would stress corporate tax reform above the need to restrict corporate inversions. It is also a message that clearly contrasts the rhetoric coming from the Obama administration, which has called inversions an “abuse of our tax system” and attempted to enact legislation that would restrict them. “We should not be providing support for corporations that seek to shift their profits overseas to avoid paying their fair share of taxes,” wrote Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew in a July letter to lawmakers. The administration announced new measures to crack down on companies that choose to move their headquarters overseas on Monday, saying that inversions “erode the U.S. tax base, unfairly placing a larger burden on all other taxpayers, including small businesses and hardworking Americans.” Critics of the measures say that they will be ineffective, and that there is no stopping inversions as long as the United States has the highest corporate income tax rate in the developed world.