Each year at this time we honor and think about the fathers who've been a part of our lives - the examples they've set, the sacrifices they've made, their successes and their strug...
But just as we have individual responsibilities, at the dawn of the 21st century we also have a collective responsibilit...
In the last six years, over 300,000 black males have lost jobs in the manufacturing sector - the highest rate of any eth...
Over the last few decades, fundamental changes in the way we work and live have trapped too many American families betwe...
The second step we'll take to strengthen families is to ensure that working Americans are not impoverished Americans.
There are fewer and fewer families who can tell this story today.
Parents will need to make sure their kids turn off the TV once in a while, and put away the video games, and start hitti...
I think about my grandfather, who first became a father when my mother was born on a Kansas army base at the outset of W...
We know that to fill these jobs, we'll also have to get serious about educating our workforce for the 21st century.
But he told us that of everything that's out there, his biggest dream is to someday stand in the front yard of his own h...
And of course, though I did not know him well, every year around Father's Day I think of my own father. He and my mother...