Amy Klobuchar in The Atlantic

On Budget & Economy: Focus on issues affecting small business, rural America

[On "heartland economics":] 'Heart' is about the heart of America, the middle of America, but it is also about economics with heart, which means you're looking out not just for the people at the top and the titans, you're looking out for people who are working the economy. And what the Midwest did, when you go way back to the early 1900s, it was the Midwest that stood up on the antitrust issue.

This is a political movement that started here, and it was a movement that said small farms matter, small businesses matter, entrepreneurship matters, that's the engine, this is why our Founding Fathers moved from England, because they didn't want to be controlled by monopolies and the East India Company, and when they did they got really mad and threw the tea into the water. Heartland economics is a focus on rural economics, which is very different in terms of critical access to hospitals, broadband, and making sure that [rural Americans] can have a piece of the action.

Source: The Atlantic, "Heartland Economics": 2020 Democratic primary Apr 4, 2019

On Immigration: Immigrants crucial to labor & management

"The economics of it is that we need workers in our factories all over the country, we need workers on our farms, and we need workers with creative ideas," Klobuchar said. "At least 70 of our Fortune 500 companies are headed up by immigrants. So immigration has been a major driving economic force. And you can't have economics with heart, and neglect 12 million people, and just pretend they're not working in our economy." Source: The Atlantic, "Heartland Economics": 2020 Democratic primary Apr 4, 2019

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