Today is a very exciting day for President Obama’s service and social innovation agendas. It marks the one year anniversary of the President’s signing of the bipartisan Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, and today we are launching the new website for the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation (SICP), a first-of-its-kind office within […]
Cross-posted form the CIO’s blog. "Cyber-crime on the rise with 100 attacks a second worldwide" "Federal IT pros say US at high risk for cyberattack" "Defending cyberspace important" With headlines like these, just in the past couple of days, it is little wonder why the Obama Administration is taking the threat of cyber attack so […]
Click here to see the video. This morning the President met with bipartisan leaders of the Senate and the bipartisan leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Oval Office to discuss the Supreme Court vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Stevens. Before beginning the meeting, he spoke to the press, commending Justice […]
What a difference a year makes. Just about a year ago, the American auto industry was on the brink of collapse. Today, General Motors announced that it has repaid its $6.7 billion loan to the U.S. government in full five years ahead of schedule, and Chrysler announced that, after taking one-time charges last year associated […]
Earlier this evening, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association announced its intention to have all the Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in the country voluntarily extend coverage of adult children in all cases where coverage of adult children in all cases where coverage is set to expire because of age or loss of student status. […]
Ed. Note: Tomorrow, Vice President Biden will kick off five days of Administration events around the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. As one of these events, Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, will join us at 12:00PM EDT Thursday via WhiteHouse.gov/live or Facebook to discuss making President Obama’s energy and […]
Enacting Wall Street reform is something President Obama has worked on since long before he took office, and he is committed to signing a bill that holds Wall Street accountable, protects and empowers American consumers with the strongest consumer protections ever, and ends taxpayer bailouts once and for all. Since the legislation making its way […]
Click here to see the video. For those of us who were living and working here in Haiti on January 12th, our lives forever changed the moment the earth began to move. Burned into our collective memories are a deep rumbling, metal creaking, walls moving, glass shattering, ceilings caving in, stairs collapsing, the ground rippling, […]
The President joined the rest of the nation in mourning Dorothy Height: Michelle and I were deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Dorothy Height – the godmother of the Civil Rights Movement and a hero to so many Americans. Ever since she was denied entrance to college because the incoming class had already met its […]
Ed. Note: On Thursday at 1:00PM EDT, AARP President Jennie Chin Hansen and other health experts from HHS will take your questions in a live online chat about how reform will benefit Seniors. Submit your questions to healthreform@hhs.gov. Watch live at www.hhs.gov/live. Many young adults under the age of 26 have traditionally had a difficult […]
