Subject: In Loudoun County, Virginia, Clinton Emphasizes Her Commitment to Young Parents and Families
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Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 21:43:57 -0400
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*In Loudoun County, Virginia, Clinton Emphasizes Her Commitment to Young
Parents and Families*

Today, Hillary Clinton began a two-day tour of Virginia and Kentucky where
she will meet with women and young families to discuss issues important to
them. In Loudoun County, Virginia, Clinton held a conversation with young
parents about the challenges of balancing work and family. The average age
in Loudoun County is just under 35 years old, and 73 percent of households
with children in the county have two working parents. During the
discussion, Clinton emphasized the importance of investing in early
learning programs and making quality child care affordable for working
families, as well as ensuring that families have good schools and
affordable college as their kids grow up.

As First Lady of Arkansas and a young mother herself, Clinton
​helped introduce
 the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program,
which provided resources for parents to better educate their children at
home before they begin kindergarten. A new Hillary for America video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2qfOwpQv7U> today highlights Clinton's
lifelong record of fighting for children and families by emphasizing her
involvement in bringing HIPPY to Arkansas. HIPPY now operates in 22 states,
including Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

*A transcript of Clinton's introductory remarks in Loudoun County are
below:*
"Well, thank you all for coming and having this conversation with me. It's
clear that there are so many challenges facing young families today that we
have to come to grips with. And we have to work together to try to find the
best menu of options. Because there is just no ‘one-size-fits-all’. People
have different needs – childcare needs, sometimes even more, as Shanda and
I were just talking about, even more challenging with special needs kids
and how we start early and provide that sort of support.

"For some it's family leave and particularly the absence of paid family
leave because that makes it more difficult to deal with everything from
newborns to aging relatives. Others, it's just a continuing stress of a
workplace that doesn't provide enough compensation with rising incomes.
There still is a challenge with equal pay for women, which is real - it's
not made up.

"There are lots of concerns in the workplace that I'm hearing about
increasingly – about the work day never ends, the schedules are often
unpredictable. And even when you think you're gaining some control over
that work day it's subject to so many variables that are out of your
control and often end up throwing big monkey wrenches into what should be
your family time and your efforts to try and organize and stick with that.

"So I hear about this all over the country, and I really want to talk about
it and hear from you more than me talking. Because there are some obvious,
maybe even typical, responses, but I'm trying to get a much broader view
about what will work. These are issues that I've worked on for a really
long time going back to my own life as a mother, a daughter, and some of
the challenges there, but also in the work that I've done for the
Children's Defense Fund and other ways of trying to figure out how we have
a more cohesive and frankly welcoming set of expectations and supports for
families in today's world.

"Because, it's just harder I think. It's just my take. I think costs are
greater. Everything from commuting time to feeling like if you take that
vacation day, you're going to be viewed as slacking off. I mean they are
just--they are cultural as well as economic and structural challenges, so
I'm just very interested in hearing what all of you might have to say."

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For Immediate Release, May 9, 2016
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