On Wednesday, the President honored math and science educators at the White House and announced several new partnerships and programs in a continuation of the “Educate to Innovate” campaign, an initiative designed to energize and excite America’s students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In November, Steven Harris and Brian Hortellano were invited to […]
As CEA Chair Christina Romer explained this morning, while the latest jobs numbers are setback from the November numbers, the vast improvement over a year ago remains an encouraging sign that we are headed back towards the right track. But as focused as the Obama Administration has been on turning around the job situation in the short term, […]
Over the Holidays we talked about the road to health reform beginning back in the Transition period a year ago with the Health Care Community Discussions. Another stretch of that road has been on HealthReform.gov, which has served as a one-stop shop for just about everything anybody would want to know about reform. Now, as we enter the […]
Today’s employment report, though a setback from November, is consistent with the gradual labor market stabilization we have been seeing over the last several months. Payroll employment declined 85,000 in December. To put this number in perspective, employment declined 139,000 in September and 127,000 in October. So, in a broad sense the trend toward […]
Outgoing Special Representative Says Civilian Aspects of Transition Strategy ? Building Institutions, Economy – Must Be as Important as Military, or ?We Will Fail? United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council today that Afghanistan had reached a ?critical juncture? after a challenging year of difficult elections, a deteriorating security situation and doubts about […]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks at a meeting with the heads of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO-PrepCom) in New York today, 8 January: Happy New Year and welcome. Thank you for […]
This past Sunday, I gathered my family around me and together we watched the Food Network’s "Iron Chef America." I never imagined myself in Kitchen Stadium and couldn’t help but laugh as my daughter pointed me out on TV. It was such an honor to participate in the "Iron Chef" competition. I had the privilege […]
Click here to see the video. This afternoon the President met with relevant agency heads to discuss the ongoing reviews of the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day and move forward on rectifying the problems that were exhibited that day. Afterwards he spoke to the press and the American people about what he and his […]
The review of our security and intelligence systems following the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day has been completed. The President spoke two days ago about "the urgency of getting this right," and the identification of failures in this review, along with the immediate ordering of reforms and corrective steps both today and in the […]
[UPDATE: The President’s remarks will now be at 4:30, other times are updated accordingly.] This afternoon, the White House will release a declassified version of the security review of the attempted terror attack on Christmas Day. At 4:30 PM EST, the President will speak on the review Watch it at WhiteHouse.gov/live At 5:15 PM EST, […]
