In his weekly address on February 14, 2009, President Obama is celebrating the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as a "major milestone on our road to recovery," while still emphasizing that we have many miles yet to go.
"This historic step won't be the end of what we do to turn our economy around, but the beginning," he says in his weekly address. To get us there, he invokes President Kennedy, who said, "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."
In his weekly address on February 7, 2009, President Obama asid, "Americans across this country are struggling, and they are watching to see if we're equal to the task before us," the President says in this morning's Weekly Address. "Let's show them that we are."
In an article written for TheRoot.com, Michael E. Ross asks, "In the Obama era, what's the rationale for separating black history from American history?" In my opinion, he has lost sight of the importance of the celebration in the first place. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, and other advocates for this recognition were motivated by a desire to include the history of black contributions to our society, not to separate our history from American history. Their success overcame centuries of separating our history from American history.
There seems to be a supplier development craze going on. More and more organizations seem to want to answer the “how-to” questions for minority suppliers.
In the weekly address on January 31, 2009, President Barack Obama addressed the latest economic news and urged the passing of an America Recovery and Reinvestment Plan.
In his first weekly address as President, Barack Obama discusses how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan will jump-start the economy.
Our healthcare system is telling us, in ever more tragic and costly ways, that people who don’t have wealth are not worth keeping healthy – or in many cases even alive.
The expectations of the New Year has us all expecting change on some level. Change in the nation’s political direction; change in the global situation; change in the economy; change in the job markets; change in the schools; change in our local communities; change in our personal lives.
