Politics Apr 16 Obama, Biden to announce $600 million in job grants Striving to show action on jobs, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are hitting the road to trumpet $600 million in new competitive grants to spur creation of targeted training and apprenticeship programs that could help people land…
Nation Feb 17 Five years later, what did the stimulus bill accomplish? The costly $787 billion spending bill that President Barack Obama signed into law soon after taking office boosted the economy and helped avoid another Great Depression, the White House said in a status report on Monday's fifth anniversary of the…
Nation Feb 14 Obama travels to California to address drought-stricken region President Barack Obama will offer millions of dollars in federal aid for drought-stricken California during a visit with farmers and ranchers Friday and outline plans to seek $1 billion from Congress to help communities manage the effects of climate change.
Politics Jan 15 Obama to announce new manufacturing consortium in NC Highlighting the growing manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy, President Barack Obama is proposing new ways for the government and the private sector to help keep those jobs coming. The White House said Obama will announce Wednesday in Raleigh, N.C.,…