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A surveyor from Indonesia, he had come to Honolulu in September 1962 on an East–West Center grant to study at the University of Hawaii. [16] He earned a M.A. in geography in June 1964. Dunham and Soetoro married on March 15, 1965, on Molokai. They returned to Honolulu to live with her son as a family. [17]
Obama is gearing up to increase his sphere of influence — and potentially his net worth — as a producer. He and his wife signed a deal to produce series and films for Netflix in 2018.
On Jan. 20, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States and the Barack Obama era will officially come to an end. While his net worth is nowhere near that of his ...
Obama presents his first weekly address as President of the United States on January 24, 2009, discussing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Job Growth by U.S. president, measured as cumulative percentage change from month after inauguration to end of term. 2016 was the first year U.S. real (inflation-adjusted) median household income surpassed 1999 levels.
Aside from the six-figure pension he receives as former president, Obama has made millions from speaking engagements and his bestselling books.
The nature of tax policies in America has been suggested by economists and politicians such as Emmanuel Saez, Thomas Piketty, and Barack Obama to perpetuate economic inequality in America by steering large sums of wealth into the hands of the wealthiest Americans. The mechanism for this is that when the wealthy avoid paying taxes, wealth ...
On April 15, 2016, Obama released his 2015 tax returns, which showed that the former president and Michelle Obama filed jointly and reported an adjusted gross income of $436,065. They paid $81,472 ...
Blinder and Watson studied the comparative economic performance from Truman's elected term through Obama's first term in 2012. They excluded certain causes and identified some possible causes. [ 2 ] Excluded as causes were age and experience of the president, which political party controlled Congress, and quality of economy inherited (as ...