There’s only one show on television that can claim to have captured more than 1,050 fugitives and brought home more than 50 missing children. “America’s Most Wanted” has become a broadcast institution over the last 22 years, telling the stories of wanted fugitives with the hope that viewers will assist law enforcement in the manhunt. […]
Updated to include the President’s remarks from the Rose Garden this afternoon. Click here to see the video. THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Today, the people of Iraq went to the polls to choose their leaders in Iraq’s second national election. By any measure, this was an important milestone in Iraqi history. Dozens of parties and […]
The last few days have brought even more evidence that the health care status quo is working out great for the insurance companies – at the same time as it continues to fail American families and businesses. No wonder the insurance companies are spending millions and millions of dollars to block reform. On Wednesday, a […]
In this week’s address, President Obama describes how American families will have more control over their health care this year, after health reform passes. Click here to see the video. Here are a few more points about how health insurance reform measures will benefit Americans this year: Hold Insurance Companies Accountable: Eliminate lifetime limits […]
This week Tina Tchen and Valerie Jarrett traveled to New York City to participate in the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the U.N. Headquarters. The Commission was created in 1946 to advise the United Nations Security Council on the promotion of women’s rights. Every year representatives from UN Member […]
This week, we launched “Education in Focus” on Whitehouse.gov to shine a spotlight on what we are doing across the administration to improve our education system. And what a week it was: You joined Alma and Colin Powell, the President and myself in launching GradNation, an initiative to give more students the opportunity to go […]
div.imgleft { padding-bottom: 0px; padding-right: 5px; float: left; } Earlier this week the White House posed a question on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn as part of the “Education in Focus” feature on WhiteHouse.gov. We asked “What Does a 21st Century education mean to you?”and you had some really interesting answers. Here’s a sample of what […]
I am so pleased to participate in this week’s “Education in Focus”– since education is always my focus! Yesterday I was in the classroom for most of the day – doing what I love – teaching community college students who are eager to learn, and who are pursuing their dreams of getting a college education. […]
At the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, General Motors unveiled “The Futurama” exhibit, a captivating model that displayed a vision for the not-so-distant “future” of 1960. Visitors to the exhibit, most of whom did not own cars, were left in awe of the “ideal city of tomorrow,” imagining themselves riding in a vehicle amidst […]
Although the labor market remains severely distressed, today’s report on the employment situation is consistent with the pattern of stabilization and gradual labor market healing we have been seeing in recent months. The unemployment rate remained constant at 9.7 percent. Many had expected that some of January’s 0.3 percentage point decline would prove to be […]
