Is it President Obama’s last chance to pass his healthcare reform bill?
Declaring that “every argument has been made” on his plan to overhaul health insurance, the President changed his strategy to convince Congress and the American people to pass his universal health care bill by focusing on a single patient. The “Joe the Plumber” of [...]

President Obama’s proposed overhaul of federal student loans just got a life-saving boost. In an effort to accelerate passage of health care reform legislation, Senate Democrats have bundled the two bills together. This will allow both measures to be passed by a simple majority vote. Without taking this action, it was predicted [...]

USA Today reports that President Barack Obama is proposing providing $900 million to states and local school districts in an effort to address the country’s school dropout epidemic.

According to Obama’s proposed plan, those schools that are struggling will either need to implement some drastic changes or they face being closed down completely. The USA Today [...]

According to the White House, 1.2 million students drop out of school every year. Furthermore, only about 70% of high school freshmen will go on to graduate. Alarmingly, White House officials also report that just 2,000 high schools are responsible for turning out half of all of these drop outs. As such, the Obama Administration [...]

Is there still hope for President Obama’s universal health care bill?
In his last-minute effort to resurrect his health care overhaul, the President put forward a $1 trillion, 10-year compromise that would allow the federal government to deny the large insurance premiums that plague health care customers.
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Have you thought about starting your own business? You aren’t alone. Even during these tough economic times, people are getting in touch with their inner entrepreneur. In his State of the Union address, President Obama outlined his support for making lending to small businesses and start-ups more readily available. But before [...]

One of President Obama’s signature initiatives is education reform and an important cornerstone of this plan is revamping the student loan business by removing financial ‘middlemen’ from the process. If the president’s plan goes forward, all federally-funded college loans would go directly from the lender to students, eliminating the service of financial institutions that [...]

President Obama has once again expressed his desire to take private banks out of the picture when it comes to student loans. Referring to the payments made to the banks as “unwarranted taxpayer subsidies” during his State of the Union Address to Congress, Obama sought to gain support in using the savings to increase grants [...]