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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is providing $3 billion to unemployed homeowners facing foreclosure in the nation’s toughest job markets.
WASHINGTON – Summoned back from summer break, the House on Tuesday pushed through an emergency $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats said would save 300,000 teachers, police and others from election-year layoffs. President Barack Obama immediately signed it into law.
Will all of those young, enthusiastic Obama voters turn out in 2010? If history is any guide, probably not. Older voters are historically more likely to cast ballots in midterm elections than are voters under the age of 30. And this year, they are already more enthusiastic than younger voters about the coming campaign.
Back in early 2007, when the Bush administration was insisting that its military intervention in a faraway land was not open-ended, Senator Barack Obama wasn’t buying it.
For the second week in a row, a carnival has decided to have a mock Obama figure used as target practice. Last week, a Hellertown, Pennsylvania carnival had an Obama caricature on a wall and people shooting at it.
President Obama, making the case that “education is an economic issue,” called on Monday for the United States to produce an additional eight million college graduates by 2020 — enough for the nation to reclaim its title as the country with the highest percentage of college graduates.
President Obama cited the slight increase in private-sector job creation today, but added that “climbing out of any recession — much less a hole as deep as this one — takes some time.”
Christina Romer, one of President Barack Obama’s most pivotal economic advisers, is resigning, a change that comes as the White House struggles to show signs of clear economic gains to a hurting nation.
CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Thursday that the U.S. auto industry is not just rebounding from its problems but on its way to being No. 1 in the world again.
President Obama signed legislation on Tuesday reducing longstanding federal sentencing disparities between those caught with crack and those arrested with powder cocaine, finalizing a bipartisan consensus addressing a racially polarizing law enforcement debate.