Penny Pritzker, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Obama, discusses the Department of Commerce's infrastructure initiatives to expand high-speed internet access across the country.
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Pritzker: Comprehensive immigration reform would add $1.4 trillion to US economy
“It's hugely beneficial if we were to do comprehensive immigration reform. It's worth about 1.4 trillion dollars to our economy”
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Pritzker: Indonesian minister asked her to recruit Apple despite hostile data laws
“When I was first in this job, I'm in Indonesia, and a minister comes to me and says, we really want apple here in Indonesia, and would you please call Tim Cook? We'd like apple. I said, you know, look, I'm happy to call Tim Cook, but you are, Putting in place …”
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Pritzker: Privacy Shield has unanimous European Commission approval
“The privacy shield is, as we call, the new structure. Is, I think it's satisfies the court case. It will allow data back and forth. It has the unanimous approval of the European Commission.”
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Pritzker: Asia-Pacific middle class will reach 2.5B-3.5B in 15 years
“Over the next 15 years, you're going to see it go from about five hundred million to five hundred and seventy million middle class to Somewhere between two and a half and three and a half billion. I've seen numbers in, in, in that range. In 15 years.”
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Pritzker: U.S. GDP statistics fail to adequately capture the gig economy
“In fact, one of the challenges we have right now, and I'm fighting to get access to this information, is we don't have, really, we're not counting, I don't think, in GDP, the gig economy, as fulsomely as it ought to be accounted in our GDP, and one of the thin…”
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Pritzker: One-third of U.S. economic growth depends on business creation
“Fully a third of our growth is dependent upon what you guys do, which is build businesses.”