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Barack Obama gives away $1.4m Nobel prize money to Haiti and veterans
President Barack Obama will donate the $1.4 million (£930,000) he received for winning the Nobel Peace Prize to 10 charities, including groups working on Haiti relief and supporting military families, the White House said on Thursday.
11-Year-Old Asks Members of Congress to Support Reform: “The health care system is broken and it caused my mother’s death.”
As members of Congress ready for a vote on health reform, today they heard from 11-year-old Marcelas Owens, whose mother died in 2007 because she lacked health insurance.Tiffany Owens suffered from pulmonary hypertension, which forced her to stop work, and in turn, she lost her medical benefits. She spent the final part of her life fighting for health insurance reform — and now her 11-year-old son is working to finish her fight.Marcelas Owens, who just turned 11 today, told MSNBC:"I’m telling the members of Congress that the health care bill should be passed, because everybody deserves health care….I wanted to finish [my mother's] fight for health care."
Your Healthy App Ideas
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Yesterday USDA and First Lady Michelle Obama announced the Apps for Healthy Kids competition – part of Mrs. Obama’s Let’s Move! Campaign to raise a healthier generation of kids. The contest challenges developers to create innovative, fun and engaging tools and games that encourage children to make more nutritious food choices and be more physically active.
To get the ball rolling, The White House and GOOD asked “What kind of healthy kid app would you like to see developed?” on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Here are some of our favorite responses:
From our Facebook fans:
John Allan: A pedometer app for the iPhone that yells …
Competing on the Global Playing Field in the 21st Century
In his State of the Union address, President Obama spoke about doubling America’s exports over the next few years. Today, he discussed the first steps to meet that goal at the Export-Import Bank’s Annual Conference.
While addressing the importance of America being able to compete in the global marketplace, the President explained that every $1 billion increase in exports would support more than 6,000 jobs. To promote American exports, he announced that the administration is launching the National Export Initiative, an effort to utilize the resources of the government in support for businesses that sell goods and services abroad.
The National Export Initiative will increase access to …
“Nowhere is reform more needed than when it comes to our health care system.”
Speaking on health reform in Missouri yesterday, President Obama made the case for why we can’t wait any longer for reform, and he made it clear that he is pushing forward to get this done:“We’ve seen years — decades — where Washington just puts off dealing with our toughest challenges because it’s too hard, because we don’t know how the politics works. And the will and the capacity to act, to do serious things in this country, starts just getting sucked away. Just gets sacked by partisanship and political gamesmanship and debates about who’s up and who’s down, and how does this play politically — instead of asking what’s right and what’s wrong. And we’ve seen terrible consequences — not just these last two years …
The Master Recovery Act Transportation Map
Sometimes it’s good to look up close at how a single Recovery Act project is changing a community for the better and putting people to work. Other times it’s instructuve to take a few steps back and look at the big picture. As an example of the latter, the web team at the Federal Highway Administration created an online map of the U.S. that shows over 12,000 Recovery Act road projects. Each of the dots represented on the map represents a project. The full, interactive version on the map allows you to click the dots in order to learn more about these projects.
Secretary Ray LaHood’s Blog talks …
Celebrating International Women’s Day: From Kabul to Washington, DC
In August 2009, I performed at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, DC in celebration of Afghan Independence Day. At that event, I met Mr. Tim Nusraty, an Afghan-American who now works at the National Security Council at the White House. Many months later, Mr. Nusraty recommended me to perform at the White House on March 8, 2010 for International Women’s Day. When I learned that I was selected to perform, it was the second happiest day of my life. The first was the day I met President Barack Obama and his beautiful wife First Lady Michelle Obama. I have to say that meeting the President, the First Lady, and performing at the White House was surreal. I never thought in a million years …
Analysis: Mahmoud Abbas could not ignore Benjamin Netanyahu’s provocation
It is Arab tradition to avoid saying “no” to a guest but when the Palestinian leader met the US vice-president yesterday his hand had already been forced.
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