and together we will build a brighter future for our nation together [Laughter] [Applause] together and that future and that future we build will include what I call an opportunity economy so that every American has an opportunity to own a home to build wealth and to start a business you know I love our small businesses so growing up I really do we have small Business Leaders here raise your hand yeah right so growing up my sister and my mother my sister and me had a mother have a mother had a mother excuse me she passed but um our mother worked long hours she worked hard she worked long hours and my sister Ma and I would go over to miss Shelton's house M Shelton lived a couple of doors down and she helped my mother take care of us and we in fact used to call her our second mother well miss Shelton was a small business owner and I will tell tell you since I was a child I know the character and the the person who is a small business owner you're not only Business Leaders you're Civic leaders you hold the community together you're part of the fabric of the community and small business owners are the backbone of America's economy the backbone of America's economy which is why part of my plan that you heard about the other night will give give a $50,000 tax deduction to Startup small businesses knowing that not everybody like my opponent got handed $40 million on a silver tray and then filed for bankruptcy six [Applause] times and people sometimes just need the opportunity because we as Americans do not lack for ambition for aspiration for dream dreams for the preparedness to do hard work but not everyone has the opportunity because not everyone has the access when I talk about building an opportunity economy it is grounded in that foundational belief that when given an opportunity people Excel every day every [Applause] day part of my folus focus is on the fact that we need to build more housing in America and so we are going to cut red tape and work with the private sector to build 3 million new homes by the end of my first term and I have a plan to help lower the cost of living for America's families on everything from Health Care to groceries including I will take on corporate price gouging which as we know is about those few bad guys taking advantage of desperate people and there needs to be a consequence under my plan more than 100 million Americans will get a tax cut including including expanding the child tax credit to $6,000 during the first year of a child's life understanding that new parents need support in that most critical phase of their child's development to help them buy a car seat a crib baby clothes I will also make sure good Pang jobs are available to all Americans not just those with college degrees [Applause] for far too long our nation has encouraged only one path to success a four-year college degree our nation needs to recognize the value of other paths additional path such as apprenticeships and Technical [Applause] programs so as president I will get rid of the unnecessary NE AR degree requirements for federal [Applause] jobs to increase jobs for folks without a 4-year degree understanding that requiring a certain degree does not necessarily talk about one's skills and I will challenge the private sector to do the same [Applause] all of this to say look I come from the middle class I understand where I come from and I'm never going to forget that and I will always put middle class working people first it will always be my priority always be my priority I know where I come from I know where I come from