Bil Clinton Make America Great Again

The Clinton Presidency:  A Historic Era of Progress and Prosperity

• Longest economical expansion in American history
  The President's strategy of fiscal discipline, open foreign markets and investments in the American people helped create the conditions for a record 115 months of economic expansion. Our economy has grown at an average of iv pct per twelvemonth since 1993.
• More 22 million new jobs
  More than 22 million jobs were created in less than 8 years -- the most ever under a unmarried administration, and more than were created in the previous twelve years.
• Highest homeownership in American history
  A strong economy and financial discipline kept interest rates low, making information technology possible for more families to buy homes. The homeownership rate increased from 64.2 percentage in 1992 to 67. vii percent, the highest rate ever.
• Lowest unemployment in 30 years
  Unemployment dropped from more than seven percent in 1993 to just four.0 percent in November 2000. Unemployment for African Americans and Hispanics fell to the everyman rates on tape, and the rate for women is the everyman in more than twoscore years.
• Raised pedagogy standards, increased schoolhouse choice, and doubled education and training investment
  Since 1992, reading and math scores have increased for quaternary, eighth, and 12th graders, math SAT scores are at a thirty-year high, the number of charter schools has grown from one to more than 2,000, forty-9 states have put in place standards in core subjects and federal investment in educational activity and training has doubled.
• Largest expansion of higher opportunity since the GI Bill
  President Clinton and Vice President Gore have nearly doubled financial aid for students by increasing Pell Grants to the largest award always, expanding Federal Work-Study to allow ane million students to piece of work their manner through college, and by creating new taxation credits and scholarships such as Lifetime Learning tax credits and the HOPE scholarship. At the same time, taxpayers have saved $eighteen billion due to the decline in pupil loan defaults, increased collections and savings from the directly student loan program.
• Continued 95 percent of schools to the Internet
  President Clinton and Vice President Gore's new delivery to educational activity engineering, including the E-Rate and a 3,000 percent increase in educational engineering funding, increased the pct of schools continued to the Cyberspace from 35 percent in 1994 to 95 percent in 1999.
• Everyman crime rate in 26 years
  Because of President Clinton'south comprehensive anti-crime strategy of tough penalties, more law, and smart prevention, besides as common sense gun safety laws, the overall criminal offense rate declined for 8 consecutive years, the longest continuous drop on record, and is at the everyman level since 1973.
• 100,000 more police force for our streets
  As part of the 1994 Criminal offense Bill, President Clinton enacted a new initiative to fund 100,000 customs police officers. To date more than 11,000 law enforcement agencies have received COPS funding.
• Enacted almost sweeping gun safety legislation in a generation
  Since the President signed the Brady bill in 1993, more than 600,000 felons, fugitives, and other prohibited persons have been stopped from buying guns. Gun crime has declined 40 percent since 1992.
• Family and Medical Leave Deed for 20 one thousand thousand Americans
  To help parents succeed at work and at home, President Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993. Over 20 one thousand thousand Americans take taken unpaid exit to care for a newborn child or sick family member.
• Smallest welfare rolls in 32 years
  The President pledged to terminate welfare as we know information technology and signed landmark bipartisan welfare reform legislation in 1996. Since and so, caseloads have been cut in half, to the lowest level since 1968, and millions of parents have joined the workforce. People on welfare today are five times more probable to be working than in 1992.
• College incomes at all levels
  After falling by near $2,000 between 1988 and 1992, the median family's income rose by $half dozen,338, afterwards adjusting for inflation, since 1993. African American family income increased even more than, ascent by nearly $7,000 since 1993. Later years of stagnant income growth amidst average and lower income families, all income brackets experienced double-digit growth since 1993. The lesser 20 percent saw the largest income growth at 16.iii percent.
• Lowest poverty rate in xx years
  Since Congress passed President Clinton's Economic Programme in 1993, the poverty rate declined from 15.1 percent to eleven.viii percent concluding twelvemonth — the largest six-year drop in poverty in nigh 30 years. There are now 7 one thousand thousand fewer people in poverty than in 1993. The child poverty rate declined more than than 25 percent, the poverty rates for single mothers, African Americans and the elderly accept dropped to their everyman levels on record, and Hispanic poverty dropped to its lowest level since 1979.
• Everyman teen birth rate in 60 years
  In his 1995 State of the Union Accost, President Clinton challenged Americans to bring together together in a national campaign confronting teen pregnancy. The birth rate for teens aged 15-nineteen declined every twelvemonth of the Clinton Presidency, from 60.vii per i,000 teens in 1992 to a record low of 49.six in 1999.
• Lowest infant mortality charge per unit in American history
  The Clinton Administration expanded efforts to provide mothers and newborn children with health care. Today, a record loftier 82 per centum of all mothers receive prenatal care. The infant mortality rate has dropped from 8.5 deaths per 1,000 in 1992 to 7.2 deaths per 1,000 in 1998, the lowest rate e'er recorded.
• Deactivated more than 1,700 nuclear warheads from the old Soviet Marriage
  Efforts of the Clinton-Gore Assistants led to the dismantling of more than 1,700 nuclear warheads, 300 launchers and 425 land and submarine based missiles from the former Soviet Union.
• Protected millions of acres of American state
  President Clinton has protected more land in the lower 48 states than any other president. He has protected 5 new national parks, designated 11 new national monuments and expanded two others and proposed protections for lx million acres of roadless areas in America's national forests.
• Paid off $360 billion of the national debt
  Between 1998-2000, the national debt was reduced by $363 billion — the largest three-year debt pay-down in American history. We are at present on rail to pay off the entire debt by 2009.
• Converted the largest budget deficit in American history to the largest surplus
  Thanks in large part to the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act, the 1997 Counterbalanced Budget Act, and President Clinton'south call to save the surplus for debt reduction, Social Security, and Medicare solvency, America has put its fiscal house in guild. The deficit was $290 billion in 1993 and expected to grow to $455 billion by this year. Instead, nosotros have a projected surplus of $237 billion.
• Lowest government spending in three decades
  Nether President Clinton federal government spending every bit a share of the economy has decreased from 22.2 percent in 1992 to a projected 18.5 percent in 2000, the everyman since 1966.
• Everyman federal income revenue enhancement brunt in 35 years
  President Clinton enacted targeted tax cuts such as the Earned Income Tax Credit expansion, $500 child taxation credit, and the Promise Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Tax Credits. Federal income taxes as a percentage of income for the typical American family have dropped to their everyman level in 35 years.
• More families own stock than ever before
  The number of families owning stock in the United States increased by xl percent since 1992.
• Nearly diverse cabinet in American history
  The President has appointed more than African Americans, women and Hispanics to the Cabinet than whatsoever other President in history. He appointed the first female person Attorney Full general, the first female Secretary of State and the starting time Asian American chiffonier secretarial assistant ever.

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