Clintons hold daylong conference in Arkansas, focus on inequality

LITTLE ROCK — Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that efforts to increase access to credit and financial assistance in underserved areas can help bridge America's partisan divide, as he and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, hosted a daylong summit focused on economic inequality.

The Clintons opened the daylong conference at the former president's library in Little Rock to mark the 25th anniversary of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, a federal initiative that provides assistance to low-income communities. The conference featured former Clinton administration officials, nonprofit leaders, mayors and others.

"This is an enormous opportunity for us to bridge this partisan divide and do something together," the former president said. "Because a lot of these urban neighborhoods have the same sort of credit challenges that these small towns do."

Several of the candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination have campaigned on economic inequality as a major issue, including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, but neither Clinton touched on presidential politics when they addressed the conference.

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