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President Barack Obama meets with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in the Oval Office. The White House chief of staff is the head of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, a cabinet position in the federal government of the United States.
Barack Obama assumed office as the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009, and his term ended on January 20, 2017.The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
President Obama was first inaugurated in January 2009, in the depths of the Great Recession and a severe financial crisis that began in 2007. His presidency continued the banking bailout and auto industry rescue begun by the George W. Bush administration and immediately enacted an $800 billion stimulus program, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which included a blend ...
Years removed from the White House, Obama set out to explore the current state of labor and the job market in a new documentary. Director Caroline Suh tells Clémence Michallon what went on behind ...
Obama speaking with former president Bill Clinton and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett about job creation in July 2010 GDP growth returned in the third quarter of 2009, expanding at a 1.6% pace, followed by a 5.0% increase in the fourth quarter. [ 124 ]
Day two of the Democratic National Convention has begun. Former President Barack Obama, former first lady Michelle Obama and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will speak at the DNC, a day after the ...
The New York Federal Reserve’s latest poll of consumers found that 28.4% of respondents were on the job hunt, the highest reading since March 2014 and up from 19.4% a year ago.
Obama was also a member of the "choom gang", a self-named group of friends that spent time together and occasionally smoked marijuana. [45] [46] Obama has said that it was a serious mistake. At the Saddleback Civil Presidential Forum, Barack Obama identified his high-school drug use as his greatest moral failure. [47]