gathering in Manhattan, he called for financing mentoring programs for children whose parents are in prison.
The 1980 act creating it called for financing by a combination of general revenues and taxes on polluting industries.
The finance minister's plan calls for financing bailouts that will be administered by the International Monetary Fund.
Mr. Obama also called for financing for infrastructure projects to create jobs and subsidies to states to keep teachers and first responders employed.
The plan calls for financing through subscription fees from schools that use the site for recruiting, and through advertising from companies offering athletic goods and services.
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, seated next to Mr. Clinton, said that "our cultural diplomacy programs are central" to American foreign policy and she called for financing them "more generously".
In January, in the journal Foreign Affairs, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, the lone holdover from the Bush cabinet, called for financing a new generation of longer-lasting and more dependable nuclear arms.
The budget calls for financing increases for more agents to be hired by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to look into mortgage fraud and white-collar crime as well as for additional prosecutors and bankruptcy experts at the Justice Department to deal with growing problems arising from the financial crisis.
Revenue collection for newborn health, and competing calls for financing of other areas of healthcare, was clearly viewed as a barrier, and insufficient earmarked funds at the facility was impeding their ability to provide quality care to sick newborns.
He called the final push for financing an "exotic mixture" of deals, adding, "What a studio would have had to pay would have made it impossible".
