Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren is rolling out her plan to protect manufacturing jobs in cities like Detroit while on a campaign swing through Michigan.

Warren’s 2020 campaign provided MLive.com an outline of the Massachusetts senator’s vision to boost clean energy industries and craft patriotic economic policies before her Tuesday visits to Detroit and Lansing. Promises to revitalize Midwest industrial cities hollowed out by outsourced manufacturing jobs are a central component of Democratic candidates’ messages and the main focus of President Donald Trump’s Michigan campaign.

“For decades, our government’s economic policy has been to do whatever big corporations want,” Warren said in a statement. “Places like Detroit have seen the effects of that first-hand: flat wages, millions of jobs shipped overseas -- all while corporations make record profits. Under a Warren Administration, the focus will be on defending and creating American jobs right here in Michigan and all across the country.”

Warren, D-Mass., is the latest candidate among a large field of Democrats to campaign in Michigan. She is scheduled to attend a town hall at Focus: HOPE in Detroit at 1:30 p.m., followed by a 6:45 p.m. town hall at Lansing Community College.

National polls conducted so far show Warren ranks third in support for voters, trailing U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and former Vice President Joe Biden and ahead of U.S. Sen Kamala Harris, D-Calif. In Michigan, support for Warren was found at 9%, according to a May poll of 600 voters by Vanguard Public Affairs and Denno Research. Support for Biden was at 37% and 16% for Sanders.

Warren’s economic agenda states federal policies encourage multinational companies with no loyalty to the U.S. to invest abroad, ship jobs overseas and keep wages low. Her plan calls for pursuing a model of “economic patriotism" that invests in American workers first.

Warren also wants America to “dominate” a growing market for clean energy technology. She plans to invest $2 trillion in the next decade toward green energy research and manufacturing to help achieve some of the ambitious targets set by the "Green New Deal.”

“These ‘American’ companies show only one real loyalty: to the short-term interests of their shareholders, a third of whom are foreign investors,” Warren writes in the plan. “If they can close up an American factory and ship jobs overseas to save a nickel, that’s exactly what they will do -- abandoning loyal American workers and hollowing out American cities along the way.”

Washington policies are more to blame for a decline in manufacturing jobs more than automation or a gap in skilled workers, Warren says in the plan. She proposes the federal government should intervene in markets on behalf of American workers.

“It’s not a question of more government or less government,” Warren writes. “It’s about who government works for.”

Warren is proposing a new U.S. Department of Economic Development to create and defend jobs. It would replace the Commerce Department, absorb other federal small business agencies and promote new worker training programs.

Warren argues workforce development initiatives are scattered across multiple federal agencies with no coherent plan for long-term growth. The new department would create a national job strategy every four years and examine trends affecting rural communities and smaller cities.

Meanwhile, Warren said some agencies, like the Office of the United States Trade Representative, are controlled by corporate interests.

Michigan officials estimate there are not enough new workers with the training to fill half a million skilled trades jobs that will open by 2026. The state is spending $3 million on an ad campaign to recruit more students for careers in professional trades.

Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer identified the gap in skilled workers as a serious economic challenge during her 2019 State of the State address.

Warren argues the skilled trade gap is caused by companies that demand more from workers as an excuse to be more selective in hiring.

However, her plan also calls for increasing investments in apprenticeship programs by $19.8 billion and creating training partnerships in high-demand industries.

Another aspect of Warren’s plan includes managing the value of American currency.

Her plan links to an op-ed penned by Economic Policy Institute senior economist Robert Scott, which argues General Motor’s decision to shut down production at five plants was in part caused by an overvalued U.S. dollar. Warren argues other countries have been effective in manipulating their currency and the U.S. should respond.

It also calls for investments in federal research and development spending across the country. Warren proposes a requirement for production stemming from government-funded research to take place in the U.S.

Green manufacturing

Warren will be rolling out individual plans under her “economic patriotism” platform during the coming months, according to a campaign spokesperson. The first is focused on building a clean energy economy.

The Green New Deal is a nonbinding resolution introduced by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., that pledges to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, boost investment in clean energy infrastructure, clean up contaminated sites and other goals. The Senate voted the resolution down on March 26, but it’s been an axis Democratic candidates use to orient their environmental justice policy.

Climate change climate poses an “existential threat" to the world, Warren said. Without quick action, record floods, wildfires and storms will cause harm across the globe, she said.

Warren’s $2 trillion plan also acknowledges that low-income communities, people of color and indigenous nations bear a disproportionate impact from climate change and pollution.

Most of the spending under Warren’s plan would go to purchase American-made products for government use and export. Warren said the U.S. budget for defense procurement, set at $1.5 trillion, is a “bloated number” that isn’t needed to keep the country safe -- that money should go toward green manufacturing instead.

Part of the cost will be paid for by Warren’s proposed “real corporate profits tax” — a 7% surcharge on profits of more than $100 million earned by U.S. companies. The tax is expected to generate $1.05 trillion in revenues during the next decade.

Warren’s plan calls would fund zero-emission vehicles and energy storage technology. Under her plan, federal contracts would require companies pay employees $15 an hour, guarantee 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, and allow workers to unionize.

The remaining investment would go toward funding clean energy research and development ($400 million) and a new federal office dedicated to selling clean energy technology abroad ($100 billion).

An analysis by Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi found Warren’s plan would grow GDP 1% by 2029. The analysis found Warren’s clean energy plan would creates a quarter of one million jobs by 2020, up to 1.2 million by 2029.

“There is no free lunch, and big businesses, oil and gas companies, and multinationals pay for the cost of this plan,” the analysis states. “The economy benefits, although it would take more than a decade for this benefit to be fully realized.”

Even if the U.S. hits its goal for net-zero emissions by 2030, global emissions would still be far too high, Warren notes. She proposes a new federal office to export clean energy technology across the world and help other countries slash their emissions.

Warren also proposes creating a new National Institutes of Clean energy to conduct research similar to the National Institutes of Health.

The Massachusetts senator wasn’t the only candidate campaigning in Detroit Tuesday. Washington Governor Jay Inslee was scheduled to visit to discuss his agenda to address climate change and provide clean water and tour polluted areas of the city.

Biden also released his plan to address climate change and revitalize the economy Monday night. He has yet to campaign in Michigan.