State of the Union Address

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How Middle Class Economics Will Help More Americans Get Ahead — Obama

 [Op-Ed] America’s resurgence is real. With a growing economy, shrinking deficits, bustling industry, and booming energy production, we have risen from recession freer to ...

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Attorney General Eric Holder Takes On Some Racist Right-Wing Republicans

Eric Holder fights back [Speaking Truth To Power] Yes Joe Scarborough, There’s Still Racism In America This week Republicans introduced a bill to withhold ...

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Restoring Job Opportunity For All Americans — Obama

President Barack Obama shakes hands with a worker as he and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx tour the Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance ...

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Obama: Corporate America Can Follow GAP’S Example And Raise Minimum Wage

President Obama [President’s Weekly Address] Restoring the idea of opportunity for all requires a year of action from all of us.  Wherever I can ...

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Kain Colter And The Next Generation Of Americans: Organizing Unpaid Employed-Athletes

Kain Colter — a trailblazer My “day” job is to train the next generation at Howard University and students who hopefully can fulfill the ...

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FUEL EFFICIENCY STANDARDS, ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

  Remarks February 18 at Safeway Distribution Center, Upper Marlboro, Maryland Well, good morning, everybody.  It is good to be here.  And I want ...

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President Obama To Sign $10.10 Minimum Wage Order

President Obama [The White House] Opportunity For All: Rewarding Hard Work Today, continuing to fulfill his promise to make 2014 a year of action, ...

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ConnectED: Closing Technology Gap In Schools And Connecting America’s Students To High-speed Broadband Internet

President Obama Remarks By The President On ConnectED. Transcript supplied by The White House. Applauses have been edited out for continuity by The Black ...

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Current Reform Proposals Hurt African And Caribbean Immigrants By Abandoning Diversity Visa Program

Ron Daniels After months of a relative lull, immigration policy reform appears to be on the front burner again. With President Obama emphasizing it ...

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Obama’s Democratic Base Re-energized By State Of The Union Speech

President Obama’s Democratic base voiced strong support for his inspired State of the Union speech last night that touched on all the core issues ...