Ed. note: Today at 3:30 pm EDT, Mary Wakefield, a Registered Nurse and Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, will host a session of Office Hours on Twitter to kick off National Nurses Week and discuss what the health law means for nurses. Find out how you can get involved here. Thanks to the […]
Summer Jobs+ is a call to action for businesses, non-profits, and government to work together to provide pathways to employment for young people in the summer of 2012. It's about helping people find their first jobs. Arne Duncan's first summer job set him on a lifelong path to a career as an educator. The US Secretary of Education says he […]
Note: This live session of Office Hours has concluded. Check out the full question and answer session below or at Storify.com Today, we are excited to celebrate the start of National Nurses Week. Nurses are at the center of the American health system. And they do it all, from delivering preventive care to our children […]
Summer Jobs+ is a call to action for businesses, non-profits, and government to work together to provide pathways to employment for young people in the summer of 2012. It's about helping people find their first jobs. Jimmy Fallon is the host of NBC's Late Night and an alum of Saturday Night Live. For all his success as […]
On Tuesday, President Obama made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan to sign the Strategic Partnership Agreement with President Hamid Karzai, which provides a framework for the relationship between our two nations moving forward as U.S. forces leave the country and Afghans continue the transition to take control of their own security. In his address to […]
This is National Nurses Week, when we recognize the significant contributions that nurses make to keeping America healthy. It’s also a time to celebrate the ways the new health care law, the Affordable Care Act, is helping invest in nurses. Many of the new health initiatives in the law would not be possible without them. […]
The White House LGBT Conference on Aging will meet today at the University of Miami — where it will provide advocates, community leaders, and members of the public an opportunity to engage with the Obama Administration on the health, housing, and security needs of aging members of the LGBT community. You can watch live on […]
After signing an agreement that details our future relationship with Afghanistan, President Obama explains that we must now focus on the type of nation our troops return home to, and calls on Congress to take the money we are no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use […]
President Barack Obama welcomes the University of Kentucky men’s Wildcats basketball team to the East Room of the White House to celebrate their 2012 NCAA championship, May 4, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) Today, President Obama welcomed the University of Kentucky Wildcats to the White House to congratulate the team on its […]
Here's a quick look at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov: Correspondents' Dinner: At the annual Correspondents' Dinner, which has been held since 1920, President Obama joked about himself and the coverage he has received from the reporters in attendance. In case you missed it – or if you want to watch it again – […]
