Ed. Note: Watch video of the meeting in our section on the President’s proposal. Today’s bipartisan health care meeting offered something you rarely see in Washington: an open, honest, productive discussion between the political parties. Leaders from across the political spectrum gathered at Blair House to exchange thoughts about an issue that touches all of us: […]
Imagine a problem facing a community — unemployment or homelessness, poverty or environmental degradation — and there’s a good chance a group of college students is finding a way to tackle it. At the Corporation for National and Community Service, we honor these students and their universities with the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor […]
Walking back to the White House to grab lunch after the morning session of the bipartisan meeting at the Blair House, the President stopped in front of the gate on Pennsylvania Avenue to answer a quick question about progress so far: Q. How is it going, Mr. President? THE PRESIDENT: It’s interesting. I mean, I don’t […]
Imagine you were trying to measure the size of an iceberg and you only considered the part above the water. You’d be missing most of the picture, right? That’s much like what happened in this story on the cost of construction jobs created by the Act. The article considers only the tip of the iceberg, […]
If you’re watching the bipartisan healthcare meeting today, you’ve seen some people leaning on a talking point that premiums will increase under health care reform. Let’s be clear: our approach will lower costs for American families and businesses, and slow the growth of costs for the country as a whole. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the […]
Food desert? What’s a food desert? As part of Lets Move!, the campaign to end childhood obesity, First Lady Michelle Obama is taking on food deserts. These are nutritional wastelands that exist across America in both urban and rural communities where parents and children simply do not have access to a supermarket. Some 23.5 million […]
In June 2009, we launched the IT Dashboard, which allows the American people to monitor IT investments across the Federal government. The IT Dashboard, which has received over 86 million hits, shines light into the operations of the Federal government. However, it is not enough to simply shine a light on IT programs and hope […]
As the Recovery Act crossed the one year mark, newspaper editorial boards across the country took a good, hard look at the program and weighed in on its impact. From the St. Petersburg Times’ evaluation that “One year later, stimulus shows results in Florida” to the Philadelphia Inquirer’s verdict that “the stimulus rescued America,” consensus […]
Today, President Obama gave a major address to the Business Roundtable to encourage cooperation from business leaders to promote economic recovery. "I want to spend most of my time talking about the specific steps we need to take to build this more competitive America," he told them, "But before I do, I want to talk a […]
When it comes to keeping track of the score in Washington, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office is commonly considered to be as independent as they come. As one noted Republican Member of Congress said, CBO “speak[s] the truth to power here in Washington” and does “an important service by telling us the facts.” As the […]
