2016 Clinton to propose tax credits for apprentices Her South Carolina speech is to call attention to high youth unemployment rates.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Stopping by the Palmetto State for the second time since becoming a presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton will on Wednesday roll out a plan to provide businesses with tax credits when they hire apprentices, in an appearance designed to both appeal to young voters and draw attention to youth unemployment.

The Democratic front-runner is set to speak at a forum at Trident Technical College in the afternoon, where she will use a personal speech to detail her plan that expands on a push by New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat, and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, a Republican. In particular, Clinton will focus on the higher rates of unemployment in minority communities, an aide said.


The swing through the first-in-the-South primary state is Clinton’s third early-state visit this week, after she held her first formal campaign rally in New York City on Saturday then flew to both Iowa and New Hampshire.

The former secretary of state, who is due in Nevada on Thursday, will meet with community leaders in Orangeburg, S.C., before the forum. She will then attend a campaign fundraising event in Charleston in the evening, according to an invitation reviewed by POLITICO.

Clinton has begun to unveil more detailed domestic policy positions in recent days, but her tour of the early-voting states has been dogged by questions about the specifics of her position on the trade debate ripping through the Democratic Party in Washington — not to mention the momentum building for one of her challengers, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Sanders’ campaign on Tuesday night said it had changed the venue for his upcoming swing through this city, due to a larger-than-expected number of RSVPs. This news came only days after the state’s AFL-CIO effectively endorsed his candidacy.

Clinton faced criticisms from Republicans and Democrats alike for not kicking off her campaign with solidified policy proposals in April, but her team has indicated that she will spend the summer and early fall promoting a broad policy agenda.

On Monday in New Hampshire she called for universal preschool and expanded federal funding for states that expand preschool for low- and medium-income families. And on Wednesday, Clinton will invoke both her own experience as a young lawyer working for the Children’s Defense Fund in South Carolina and the story of her mother, Dorothy Rodham — who was abandoned by her own parents and worked as a housemaid from the age of 14 — to pitch the expanded tax credit proposal.