Today, many Americans who buy health insurance on the individual market have only a few options to choose from when selecting an insurance company. In fact, in 2012 just one or two different insurance companies dominated the individual insurance market in most states — in 29 states, one insurer covered more than 50% of […]
In a little more than 30 days, interest rates on many new federal student loans are set to double – meaning college gets more expensive and more out of reach for millions of students and middle class families. Sound familiar? That’s because we did this last summer. Students all over the country told Congress “Don’t Double My Rate,” and […]
Watch this video on YouTube After stopping in Colombia on his three-country trip to reinforce partnerships in the Americas, Vice President Biden traveled to Trinidad and Tobago, where he met with President Carmona and Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar and participated in a meeting and working lunch with a number of other Caribbean leaders. In that series of […]
On 30 May 2013, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities approved the amendments specified with underline in the entry below on its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out […]
Last night, President Obama delivered remarks before over 200 members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community at a White House celebration of AAPI Heritage Month. The audience included national, state, and local community leaders; elected officials; leaders of philanthropic, youth, and arts organizations; and members of the President’s Administration, including Sri Srinivasan, […]
Republicans in the Senate have made no secret of their efforts to block the President’s constitutional responsibility to appoint federal judges. They have filibustered unquestionably qualified nominees, like Caitlin Halligan. And their obstruction of the confirmation process kept several nominees waiting more than a year for a vote. In fact, on average, our judicial nominees […]
Occasion Marks Centenary of Poet’s Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘Gitanjali’ Under its ongoing discussion series, “Unlearning Intolerance”, the United Nations Academic Impact of the Department of Public Information will organize a special event at New York Headquarters to celebrate the centenary of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize in Literature for Gitanjali (“Song Offerings”). The […]
Ed. Note: This is a cross post from the blog of LetsMove.gov. You can find the original post here. First Lady Michelle Obama harvests vegetables with students in the White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn, May 28, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy) Today, a group of student helpers joined First […]
This Friday, an asteroid nearly three kilometers wide is going to pass by the Earth-Moon system. The fly-by is harmless — at its closest, the asteroid will be about 15 times farther from us than the Earth is from the Moon — but to mark the event, the White House will host the second in a […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the meeting of the Global Task Force of Local and Regional Governments for the Post-2015 Development Agenda, as delivered by the Assistant Secretary-General of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Shamshad Akhtar, in New York, 28 May: I send warm greetings to all those gathered […]
