Subject: 07.24.15 Friends & Allies TP's - Corporate Purpose
From: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
To: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:55:28 -0400
List-Id: <toptalkers.hillaryclinton.com>

Friends -

Hillary Clinton just wrapped up a speech in New York City, where she
put forward  her ideas to encourage long-term growth.

Below are talking points on corporate purpose that we hope you will find to
be helpful.

Thanks!

AE

*Friends & Allies Talking Points – Corporate Purpose*

*Hillary for America*

*July 24, 2015*

*For Hillary Clinton, the defining economic challenge of our time is
ensuring that the real incomes of everyday Americans are rising steadily
and strongly. *To address that challenge, she is focused on three drivers
of rising incomes: strong growth, fair growth, and long-term growth.

*To address the third driver, long-term growth, Clinton spoke in New York
today to discuss how short-termism is bad for business, bad for workers,
and bad for our economy. *She pointed to the growing number of leaders from
both the business community and the academy that are mobilizing to change
the culture of short-termism in boardrooms, classrooms, and trading
floors.

*Clinton laid out a vision for how American businesses should break free
from the tyranny of today’s earnings report. *She said prioritizing the
next earnings report over long-term goals discourages investments that
drive strong and steady growth and called for companies to instead focus on
achieving long-term value.

·         Clinton explained that real value comes from long-term growth,
not short-term profits.  It comes from building companies, not stripping
them.  It comes from creating good jobs, not eliminating them.  And seeing
workers as assets, not costs.

·         Clinton praised the growing number of good actors who are raising
the alarm on this front and taking steps to achieve long-term value,
including Google and Trader Joe’s. She spoke about how the Big Three
automakers are putting the memory of the crisis behind them and making new
investments in factories and technologies of the future, including advanced
batteries.

*To address the challenge of short-termism, Clinton focused on five areas
to begin the discussion:*

*1)      **Reforming capital gains taxes *to reward farsighted investments
that create jobs and raise incomes for hard-working Americans.

*2)      **Addressing the influence of increasingly assertive “activist
shareholders” *that prioritize short-term profits over long-term value and
making stock buybacks more transparent.

*3)      **Focusing on executive compensation* so it no longer provides
incentives for CEOs and others to sacrifice long-term value in pursuit of
short-term profits or bumps in share prices.

*4)      **Empowering workers *and their bargaining power through defending
workers’ rights and encouraging more companies to invest in their employees.

*5)      **Ensuring the government follows suit*, by ending the era of
budget brinksmanship to invest for the long-term.
-- 

Adrienne K. Elrod
Spokesperson
Hillary For America
*www.hillaryclinton.com <http://www.hillaryclinton.com>*
@adrienneelrod

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