Today, on World AIDS Day, we take a moment to recognize those living with AIDS and the organizations dedicated to HIV/AIDS research, prevention, and treatment. There are approximately 1.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS today in the United States. Another 56,000 Americans contract HIV each year and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that […]
If you’re an avid reader of this blog or you’ve been following the health insurance reform process closely, you probably know by now that reform will strengthen Medicare and keep the Medicare trust fund in the black for an additional five years. So you might find it curious that opponents of reform continue to repeat […]
Today, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina issued this memo to all White House staff summarizing the White House review that was conducted after the State Dinner Tuesday night: Read the memo. Fonte: White House
As the Senate debate gets into full swing this week, we thought we’d address a half dozen of the myths you will most certainly hear from critics of health insurance reform. If it feels like you have heard these arguments before, it is because you have… you have heard them over and over and over again. You […]
This Thursday, the President is hosting a discussion at the White House to explore every possible avenue for job creation and get ideas from CEOs, small business owners, economists, financial experts, labor union representatives, nonprofit groups and regular Americans who have felt the impact of this economic crisis firsthand. But you don’t need to be […]
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For the past day and a half, several Senior Administration officials and I joined leaders from the public, private, and non-profit sectors to discuss the role of innovation in achieving sustainable economic growth and quality jobs. We wish to extend our thanks to the Aspen Institute, Intel, the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and […]
The United State Agency for International Development (USAID) is responding to President Obama’s call to promote women’s empowerment throughout the world by strengthening the Agency’s gender policy. USAID funds development projects all around the world which strive to promote greater socioeconomic development. In the diverse cultures where USAID works, project assistance may impact men and […]
There’s a new report out from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the economic impact of the Recovery Act. I’ll get to the findings in a second, but somebody over at the Wall St. Journal’s editorial page has a whole lot of explaining to do. Here what CBO found: Between its inception in February of this year […]
Today, on World AIDS Day, we take a moment to recognize those living with AIDS and the organizations dedicated to HIV/AIDS research, prevention, and treatment. There are approximately 1.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS today in the United States. Another 56,000 Americans contract HIV each year and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that […]
