In the summer of 2009, President Obama took his family to Yellowstone National Park. The President had first visited the park on a summer-long cross country trip he took as a young boy with his mother, grandmother and sister, who joined him this time as well. Take a look and see for yourself why he remembers […]
“Always be humble and don’t let anybody say you don’t work hard. Do your best” were the words of wisdom instilled in me by my Haitian-born parents. They’d experienced the dictatorship of Jean Claude Duvalier, yet remained total optimists. I thought of them when I arrived at the White House earlier this month. I thought […]
Today I had the honor to name 78 schools as the first-ever U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools. When we set out a year ago to recognize comprehensive achievement in the areas of environmental impact, health and education, we didn’t know about the quality of the applications we would receive. But we discovered that […]
Note: Planning to watch live and engage in the discussion? RSVP on facebook and pose questions for the panel now. On Monday, April 23, President Obama will speak at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to commemorate the Holocaust and discuss how the United States is honoring the pledge of “never again” by developing a comprehensive […]
It’s almost time for National Small Business Week 2012 – and to kick things off we are launching a video contest. Each week I travel around the country and hear from business owners about how SBA has helped them start, grow and succeed. I’m often inspired by each business’ ingenuity, and it’s the small business owners I […]
Ed note: This is was originally posted on the Small Business Administration Community blog. Graduation season is right around the corner and to help grads who are looking to start a small business, SBA and the U.S. Department of Education will host a Twitter Q & A Session on April 25 at 2 pm EDT […]
Did you know? To better protect the health of American families and the air they breathe, the Obama Administration has issued landmark clean air standards that will save lives by cleaning up air pollution in communities across the country. The Administration has established first-ever national limits for mercury, arsenic, and other toxic air pollution from power […]
Young girls hike a trail at the Olympic National Park, which is west of Seattle on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula (by Christine Korkalo) IT’S NATIONAL PARK WEEK! Did you know that there are nearly 400 national parks across our country? That’s right! And this week we celebrate all of them. From the Grand Canyon to Gettysburg, […]
President Obama believes that we should be doing everything we can to put higher education within reach for every American – because at a time when the unemployment rate for Americans with at least a college degree is about half the national average, it’s never been more important. He is calling on Congress to act before […]
In these videotaped remarks, President Obama sends an important and very clear message to the people of Sudan and South Sudan: conflict is not inevitable. The people of Sudan and South Sudan still have a choice, a chance to avoid being dragged back into war. Sudan needs to halt all military actions, including aerial bombardments; give aid workers […]
