Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg Promote Data2x Project
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Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Hillary Clinton appeared with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in New York Monday, bringing attention to an initiative to help improve the tracking of data about women and girls worldwide.
The project, Data2x, is a joint venture of the Clinton Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the United Nations Foundation.
There was no 2016 or political talk at the event. Instead, Clinton stressed her longtime focus on improving the lives of women and girls around the globe — something we are sure to hear if she does make a run official.
Clinton said the data must be combed through in order to “build a case strong enough to convince skeptics based on hard data and clear eyed analysis that creating opportunities for women and girls across the globe, directly supports everyone’s security and prosperity and therefore should be an enduring part of our diplomacy and development work.”
Bloomberg introduced the possible presidential candidate, calling her a ”great secretary of state, a great senator for New York.” The billionaire even joked to the crowd: “If my mother and father knew that I was on a first-name basis with Hillary Clinton, it would be a very big deal.”
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