Today’s employment report shows continued signs of gradual labor market healing. Payroll employment rose significantly in March, and the unemployment rate remained constant despite a substantial increase in the labor force. Payroll employment increased 162,000. Even after adjusting for the 48,000 temporary Census workers hired and a rebound effect from the February snowstorms, this number […]
Have you ever tried to open a web link on a mobile device and the page looked jumbled or just hard to read? It can be pretty annoying, particularly in this day and age when more people are getting their info on the go. So here at the White House, we’re addressing this problem with […]
Editor’s Note: In case you missed them, read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. For this week’s episode of Recovery Act in action, I spoke to a business owner who started out skeptical about the benefits of the Recovery Act.In fact, he was so concerned that the Act wouldn’t help the economy, he […]
The city of Charlotte, North Carolina will play host to President Obama tomorrow as he drops by a fascinating company called Celgard. The high tech company produces a component for lithium-ion batteries—polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), or trilayer PP/PE/PP electrolytic membranes if you really want to know. These batteries can be found in products ranging from […]
Today, President Obama spoke to an audience in Maine to discuss how health reform will benefit individuals, families, and small business owners, making good on the promise he made during his last visit “that our government would once again be responsive to the needs and aspirations of working families, of America’s middle class.” He talked […]
Yesterday, as noted by Valerie Jarrett in her post this afternoon, the White House hosted a first-of-its-kind forum on workplace flexibility. Businesses (large and small), employees, advocates, labor leaders and experts spent the afternoon discussing why workplace flexibility matters – and trading information about options that are working in the workplace, such as telecommuting, flextime, job […]
With everything that President Obama does in a given week, it can be easy to miss important news and interesting events. “West Wing Week” sums up the past seven days at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, or wherever the President may travel. It features highlights from last week’s events plus behind-the-scenes footage of life in the White House. Alongside the West […]
Today is Census Day – the day of reference that defines who to report as living in your household on your 2010 Census form. This morning, President Obama officially declared today "Census Day" in a presidential proclamation. Also today, I learned that President Obama recently filled out and mailed back his census form. Below you […]
President Barack Obama, surrounded by the family of Cesar Chavez and leaders of the United Farm Workers that Chavez co-founded, signs a proclamation in the Oval Office designating March 31, 2010, which would have been his 83rd birthday, as Cesar Chavez Day. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) [View Full Size] Today, I joined […]
We just got back from the Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility where, housed in a hangar, the President stood before an F/A-18 jet that will run on biofuels this Earth Day, and outlined his energy security strategy to break our dependence on foreign oil. Our challenges are not insignificant: we have less than 2 percent […]
