October 13th is the 235th Anniversary of the founding of the United States Navy. So it was incredibly appropriate that today I had the opportunity to speak at two events focused on our military’s energy policy, because how the Navy and Marine Corps have harnessed energy has shaped our history since the birth of the […]
This week we kicked off Tuesday Talks, a weekly live video chat, with Elizabeth Warren, who is leading efforts to set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – one of the central aspects of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that the President signed in July. Check out what you missed and […]
Any middle class parent or student who’s worried about paying college tuition will tell you that $2,500 makes a big difference when it comes time to pay the bills. But right now, there's a real chance students will lose access to an important tax credit provides this level of assistance – unless we act quickly. […]
Health care is very personal for me. I was born with a heart murmur, my mother is a breast cancer survivor but lost her mom at the age of 3, an aunt who lost her life due to cancer, and my dad cleaned hospital rooms for 29 years. But because of having access to health […]
On Monday, the White House hosted its first African American Online Summit, which brought together a group of programming leaders from the African American online media world for an in-depth briefing and discussion about how the Administration is approaching important issues such as jobs, the economy, health care, education, community investment, civil rights and civil liberties, and […]
President Barack Obama meets with the student finalists of the NFTE National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge in the Oval Office. These students – four of who are still in high school – have all started new businesses and competed against 24,000 other young people in the competition. President Obama is the first to recognize that not […]
The Wall Street Journal today ran an editorial bemoaning the increase in federal spending between FY 2008 and FY 2010. What it doesn’t factor in, or provide context for, is the chain of events that led to these increases. First, a large driver of federal spending was the onset of the economic collapse in late […]
Watch a behind-the-scenes video with President Obama and students from the film Waiting for Superman. Yesterday, the children, their families and others that worked on the movie met with President Obama in the Oval Office and watched him depart in helicopter Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House. Click here to see the […]
Today, the Internal Revenue Service issued a sample W-2 form for 2011. The form looks just like the W-2 you have received in years past, with one important new piece of information. Beginning in 2011, employers will have the option of including the value of the health care benefits that you have received on your […]
We’re getting ready to kick off Tuesday Talks, a weekly live video chat on WhiteHouse.gov, with Elizabeth Warren, who is leading efforts to get the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — one of the central features of Wall Street Reform as explained in our animated video — off the ground. “Basically, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau […]
