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The White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing is currently holding listening sessions to draft recommendations to strengthen the relationships between local police and the communities they serve.
President Obama on Tuesday (July 22) signs into law the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), enacted by large bipartisan majorities in both the House and the Senate, after 11 years of debate to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
The White House launches a public-private partnership to accelerate impact investing with $1.5 billion in commitments from more than 20 private-sector investors, including the McKnight Foundation, Ford Foundation and MacArthur Foundation.
The White House announces a new effort to improve Indian education and economic development. While much of the funding reflects the reallocation of existing resources, there are new opportunities and/or resources available.
The 27 new renewable energy partnerships will create good jobs while cutting carbon pollution and come in response to President Obama’s call to action as part of the White House Solar Summit last month and the Better Buildings Initiative the President launched in 2011.
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on Thursday (April 24) met with representatives of Pacific Northwest tribes to discuss federal efforts addressing the economic, social and climate change challenges facing American Indian and Alaska Native governments and helping them to build strong, prosperous and resilient communities.
This initiative is charged with bringing together federal resources to help rural businesses and leaders take advantage of new investment opportunities and access new customers and markets abroad.
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama offers an assessment of current workforce, manufacturing and community improvement initiatives designed to help the economy rebound, and he proposes next steps to continue the progress.
President Barack Obama says he will submit his FY 2015 budget blueprint on March 4, one month past the official due date on the first Monday in February.
The president's critics see the proclamation as a "too little too late" measure by Obama to divert attention from the nation's sluggish economic recovery and an unemployment rate that continues to hover near the 8% level.
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