With the unemployment rate falling to its lowest level in more than two years, Congress needs to “step on the gas, not slam on the brakes” and pass a proposed payroll tax cut, President Barack Obama said in his weekly radio address broadcast Saturday.
War with Iran is the last thing Barack Obama needs with the American economy in dire trouble and a tough White House election campaign looming next year, according to officials in Washington as well as political analysts.
Reince Priebus suggested on Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s executive orders aren’t doing much to help the economy, accusing the president of playing “small ball.”
“He’s checking off boxes and talking points so that he can get everything laid out for his reelection campaign,” the chairman of the Republican National Committee said on Fox News. “I mean, and some of this stuff isn’t all that bad, but it’s just like, small ball.”
WASHINGTON—Darryl Flood thought he would have to wait until 2013 to get out of prison, more than a decade after he pleaded guilty to being part of a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.
This is the story of a pretty ordinary family, the Paynes, from a pretty ordinary state – Kansas — definitely flyover country — which produced Stanley Ann Dunham. An extraordinary, somewhat headstrong, woman who lived most of her adult life in Indonesia, she probably could have won a Nobel Peace Price for her work in microcredit, if she had been better known. Her impact, at AID and the Ford Foundation and with departments of the Indonesian government, grew out of her deep understanding of village peasant economics, the importance of women in the rural economy, and her love of the people she met in her work.
Written by John Kovach Sunday, 30 October 2011 06:48
Sunday, 2:15 p.m.: Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has formally asked President Obama for a federal emergency declaration in the wake of the Halloween weekend snowstorm.
WASHINGTON • Rep. Tim Griffin, a Republicanfreshman from Arkansas with a university in his district, supportslegislation that would make it easier for foreign math and scienceprofessionals to get legal residency.
Rep. Bobby Schilling, R-Ill., is resisting intense pressure tosupport a House bill that would require employers to verify thelegal status of their workers because he is concerned thatbusinesses would be unduly burdened.
President Obama’s education reform efforts will address growing income inequality in the U.S., Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Wednesday.
Speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Duncan promoted the administration’s jobs plan, portions of which are targeted at updating school facilities and hiring teachers.
Broderick Johnson, a Washington lawyer and the husband of NPR’s Michele Norris, is joining President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign as a senior adviser and member of the senior staff to help provide “an ear to the ground,” Obama for America officials said Monday.
Keeping up its attention on Mitt Romney, the Obama campaign assailed the Republican presidential candidate on Wednesday for his comment at a GOP debate suggesting that he opposed hiring illegal immigrants to work on his property for purely political reasons.