Barack Obama

These ideas will strengthen the middle class and help more people work their way into the middle class.

Our unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in more than 5 years.

I'm going to fight for these priorities: to shift the odds back in favor of more working and middle class and to keep America a place where you can always make it if you try.

Agencies shall not make an unfavorable determination with respect to the suitability, fitness, or qualifications of an applicant for Federal employment because that applicant is or was unemployed.

The long-term unemployed are frequently overlooked and sometimes excluded from job opportunities.

Marijuana for casual users, individual users, is subject to abuse, just like alcohol is, and should be treated as a public health problem and challenge.

Applicants should not face undue obstacles to Federal employment because they are unemployed or face financial difficulties.

Because every job applicant deserves a fair shot.

Programs will have to recruit long-term unemployed workers and employ strategies that are effective in getting them back to work.

I hereby certify that members of the U.S. Armed Forces participating in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali are without risk of criminal prosecution or other assertion of jurisdiction by the…

We should never have taken an abrupt step backwards by cutting off their unemployment insurance.

I do hereby proclaim February 2014 as American Heart Month.

When we fail to keep faith with our veterans, the bond between our nation and our nation's heroes becomes frayed. When a veteran is denied care, we're all dishonoured.

No veteran should have to fill out a 23-page claim to get care or wait months, even years to get an appointment at the V.A.

Some of the nation's largest companies have signed on to a White House plan to boost hiring of the long-term unemployed.

A quality education shouldn't be something that those other kids get, it's something that all kids get.

These are real, practical, achievable solutions to help shift the odds back in favor of more working families.

We will not cede this important opportunity for American workers and businesses to our competitors.

Workers and job seekers must have access to education and training that meets their unique needs and the requirements for good jobs and careers.

Getting an education, more than ever, is a ticket to the middle class.

Today, the President declared a major disaster in the State of Oklahoma.

Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect the authority granted by law to a department or agency, or the head thereof.

Every child is successful, then the world my child grows up in will be more successful.

Nothing is more important than the investment in our children.

We want every child to have every chance in life, every chance at happiness, every chance at success.