Today the First Lady is traveling to Jackson, Mississippi for the recently launched Let’s Move! Campaign – an initiative to end childhood obesity with a focus on promoting healthy eating, nutrition education and physical activity in schools. In February, the President signed a Memorandum establishing a task force to address the issue and last month […]
If there’s one thing better than meeting new folks on the road, it’s meeting new folks out on the road and having them cook you up some of the best food in the country. So it was when the President sat down with some of the regulars at the famous Mrs. Wilkes’ Boarding House restaurant […]
In honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, the First Lady read “The Cat in the Hat” aloud at the Library of Congress during the National Education Association’s Read Across America event. She was joined by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel, and students who all sported red and white hats like the […]
At WhiteHouse.gov we’re always looking for new ways to engage with citizens, whether it’s through a live video chat with a policy expert or an Open for Questions event with the President. As an extension of the Administration’s commitment to making government more collaborative and participatory, we’re trying something new this week. The White House […]
Earlier today, after touring Savannah Tech, President Obama announced the initiatives for HOMESTAR, a program that offers incentives for people to make their homes more energy-efficient. The President explained that the new program will save families several hundred of dollars on utilities, make the economy less dependent on fossil fuels, create work for small businesses […]
Have a look at some raw footage we got back from the President’s trip to Savannah, shot just a few hours ago: var params = { allowscriptaccess: “always”, allowfullscreen: “true” }; swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/qAtcMaZOADA&hl=en&fs=1&showinfo=0”, “flashcontent”, “480”, “295”, “8”, null, {}, params); Viewing this video requires Adobe Flash Player 8 or higher. Download the free player. The […]
Ed. Note: Learn more about the Administration’s Cybersecurity efforts on our Cybersecurity page. Today in my keynote speech at the RSA Conference in San Francisco I discussed two themes that are vital to our nation’s cybersecurity efforts: partnerships and transparency. These two themes go hand-in-hand. You cannot have one without the other, and they form […]
This morning, economist Edward Glaeser wrote a blog post over at the NYT charging that Recovery Act spending isn’t going where it’s needed most. Based on a subset of Recovery Act spending, he claims that per capita spending in a state is actually negatively correlated with the state’s unemployment rate – in other words, the […]
Last Thursday the President hosted a unique, open conversation with leaders from both parties in Congress to hear everyone’s ideas about how to finally put American families and small businesses in control of their health care. The President brought a proposal to the table, which included many Republican ideas that have been incorporated over the […]
Click here to see the video. I was taught at an early age about the importance and value of a high-quality education to getting ahead in life. Both of my parents are educators. They were the first in their families to attend college. In addition to the values and of hard work and service that […]
