This week, the President celebrated his fourth St Patrick's Day in the White House and hosted the Irish Prime Minister, marked Nowruz with a video address, then embarked on a four state energy tour. Fonte: White House
President Barack Obama delivers remarks on energy at the TransCanada Stillwater Pipe Yard near Cushing, Okla., March 22, 2012. The President highlighted the Administration’s commitment to expanding domestic oil and gas production. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Cushing, Oklahoma is an oil town. It’s a major hub for connecting our nation’s crude oil […]
This week, we are holding a series of White House Office Hours with Administration officials as we mark the two year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. On Monday, Nancy-Ann DeParle, Deputy Chief of Staff and former Director of the White House Office of Health Reform, held Office Hours on Twitter to answer your questions. […]
Ed note: This originally appeared on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau blog It can be hard to understand the language of financial products and services. Just what exactly is a grace period? What about an ARM? A balloon payment? And while the Internet can serve up an answer, how can you be sure it’s the […]
President Barack Obama delivers remarks highlighting the Administration’s commitment to expanding domestic oil and gas production, at the Maljamar Cooperative Association located on federal lands outside of Maljamar, New Mexico, March 21, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) The second stop of President Obama's energy tour this week was a set of oil and […]
We met Nathan and his son, Thomas, in 2009. Thomas was born with hemophilia, and he hit lifetime limits on his health coverage with two different insurance companies before he turned seven years old. Two years ago, Nathan was hopeful about what the Affordable Care Act would mean. Last week we spoke with Thomas’s family […]
The Affordable Care Act is already helping small business owners with the costs of providing health insurance for their employees, and many Americans now have access to care they didn’t before, including children with pre-exsiting conditions and young adults who can now stay on their parents' plan until age 26. Millions more have access to free […]
For too long, too many hard working Americans paid the price for policies that handed free rein to insurance companies and put barriers between patients and their doctors. The Affordable Care Act gives families the security they deserve. The new health care law forces insurance companies to play by the rules, prohibiting them from dropping […]
This morning, David Plouffe, Senior Advisor to President Obama, sent the message below to individuals on the White House email list about the House Republican Budget. If you didn't get the email, be sure to sign up. Every day, you and your family make choices about how you spend your money and what investments you make. […]
Mark Hodesh, the owner of a home-and-garden shop in downtown Ann Arbor, MI, thinks there’s a lot of misinformation about the Affordable Care Act and its impact on small-businesses like his: “A lot of people say it’s a job killer. In my experience, it’s a job creator.” To maintain a strong staff for the past […]
