CLINTON COMDEX SPEEC

00:00:00;00 [President Bill Clinton addressers Comdex Computer Convention]---VS President Bill Clinton walks onstage with Frederick Rosen Key 3 Media Group Chairman and Jason Chonofsky (SP?) Comdex President; from stage Clinton salutes and waves to audience and then takes seat/ SOT Rosen/ (15:11:03) SOT Clinton comments on importance of information technology and the fact that it has accounted for 30% of US economic growth although it is an industry that only makes up 8% of US employment; "details the achievements of his administration and the positive impact they have had on the economy; "...And its given us the longest economic expansion in history the lowest African-American and Hispanic unemployment rate ever recorded the lowest female unemployment rate ever recorded in forty years poverty down to a twenty year low the lowest welfare rolls in thirty years the lowest overall unemployment in thirty years"; speaks of need to spread the economic success of the nation to those it has thus far ignored and hoe he would like to see an America that will give all Americans a shot at achieving the American dream; states that it is important to close the digital divide that separate Americans have access to technology and those who do not; talks about trips taken to remote rural areas Indian reservations and inner cities that have been untouched by economic prosperity of the nation and states that it is crucial to nations continued economic growth to include people in these regions; 'The new information economy has the potential at home and around the world to lift more people out of poverty more quickly then in any previous period in all of human history and that tapping that potential is actually in our enlightened self interest"; talks of the need for private enterprise in technology fields to take a more active in helping to close digital divide suggesting that they could join programs o help train and give skills t...

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