Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In FY 2011, federal spending totaled $10.1 billion for the National School Lunch Program. [3] The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act allows USDA, for the first time in 30 years, opportunity to make real reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs by improving the critical nutrition and hunger safety net for millions of children. [4]
In 2010, President Obama signed the executive order establishing White House Council for Community Solutions to engage cross sector leaders to identify initiatives that expanded civic participation, [15] helped solve the nation's most serious problems and create new pathways for "Disconnected Youth", 16- to 24-year-olds who are out of school ...
Stanley Armour Dunham, Ann Dunham, Maya Soetoro and Barack Obama, mid-1970s (l to r) On August 21, 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state to be admitted into the Union. Dunham's parents sought business opportunities in the new state, and after graduating from high school in 1960, Dunham and her family moved to Honolulu.
The school lunch adjustments garnered a fair amount of negative feedback during the Obama years, with the sarcastic #ThanksMichelleObama hashtag often accompanying photos of unappetizing lunches ...
Obama has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80% below 1990 levels by 2050 by creating a market-based cap-and-trade system. [71] He also has planned to improve air and water quality through reduced carbon emissions. [71] Obama worked as a member of the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works during the 109th Congress. [72]
Later that same day, the House passed the amended bill by a 220–207 vote, sending it to President Obama for a signature. [16] On March 30, 2010 Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, [17] 7 days after he had signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. [18] [19]
President Obama chides Mitt Romney for calling Russia, and not Al Qaeda, the No. 1 threat to the United. ... Obama: The 1980s Called, They Want Their Policy Back. DailyFinance Staff.
From 1890 to the early 1920s, the U.S. provided what Theda Skocpol characterized as "maternalist policies", as it provided pensions for widowed mothers. [13] Historically, the United States has spent less on social welfare than European countries, but only in terms of gross public social welfare spending. The United States tended to tax lower ...