Hillary Clinton's economic platform will revolve around raising middle-class income

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Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton is expected to outline her economic agenda in a speech Monday. Aides told The Wall Street Journal she's expected to call raising income for all Americans "the defining economic challenge of our time." Specifically, she'll harp on the importance of raising middle-class income in an effort to contrast herself with her Republican counterparts.

"She firmly believes that yes, we have to grow, but we have to grow together,” a campaign official who previewed the speech told the Journal.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.