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President Obama presenting the American Jobs Act to Congress The American Jobs Act ( S. 1549 ) (H. Doc. 112-53) [ 1 ] and (H.R. 12) [ 2 ] was the informal name for a pair of bills recommended by U.S. President Barack Obama in a nationally televised address [ 3 ] to a joint session of Congress on September 8, 2011. [ 4 ]
The American Graduation Initiative was President Obama's initiative for Community Colleges. Obama announced the initiative at Macomb Community College in suburban Detroit in the summer of 2009. He proposed investing roughly $12 billion in community colleges over 10 years, with the goal of greatly improving their performance in getting students ...
The Obama administration's Department of Education began Promise Neighborhoods almost immediately upon Obama's first term in office. [8] The program was initially established under the legislative authority of the Fund for the Improvement of Education Programs. [9] The Promise Neighborhoods program was initiated in two phases.
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The former president broke the big news during a community event at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago on Wednesday. Barack and Michelle Obama donate $2 million to summer jobs programs in ...
President Obama is having a job summit on Thursday, gathering 130 business leaders, mayors and others to help figure out how to get the 15.7 million unemployed people in America back to work. As ...
Pathways Out of Poverty (POP) is an American workforce development program that was established on August 14, 2009 by the Obama administration and funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. The Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration announced POP grantees on January 13, 2010. [1]
America's College Promise was a proposal by the Barack Obama administration to offer all students two free years of community college tuition. [1] [2] [3] It was based on the Tennessee Promise, a similar program for the state of Tennessee. State level programs, like the Tennessee Promise, have faced critique for their ability to fill tangible ...