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President Barack Obama’s will visit the Boca Raton campus of Florida Atlantic University on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 10, to deliver an economic address regarding the Buffett Rule.

In 2009, 1,470 people who made more than $1 million paid $0 in federal income tax. That means that while millions of middle class families paid their fair share in taxes that year—money that went to funding things like education, our military, and health care for seniors—a  small group of high-income Americans paid nothing at all. Want to know how your tax dollars are spent? Check out your 2011 Federal Taxpayer Receipt.

President Obama believes in building an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. That’s why he proposed the Buffett Rule. The Buffett Rule is simple: if you make more than $1 million a year, you should pay at least the same percentage of your income in taxes as middle class families do.

Have a question about the Buffett Rule? Want to know more where your tax dollars are spent? Join us on Wednesday, April 11^th at 3:00 p.m. EDT, for a session of Office Hours on Twitter with Brian Deese, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. Ask your question now using the hashtag #WHChat.

Here’s how White House Office Hours work:

• Ask your questions now and during the live event on Twitter with the hashtag#WHChat
• Follow the Q&A through the @WHLive Twitter account
• If you miss the live session, the full session will be posted onWhiteHouse.gov and Storify.com/WhiteHouse

So, stop by for Office Hours at 3:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 11th with Brian Deese.

President Obama to join UAW members at conference

2/24/12 uaw.org

UAW members were excited today to learn that President Obama will be joining them next week in Washington when they gather for the union’s National Community Action Program (CAP) Legislative Conference.

More than 1,600 members from across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico will discuss the union’s legislative and political priorities for the coming year, meet with members of Congress to advocate on behalf of working families and prepare for the union’s 2012 electoral campaign.

UAW members will be focusing on the union’s jobs creation agenda that includes passing President Obama’s American Jobs Act and demanding policies to strengthen our economy by:

* Ending poverty and rebuilding the middle class by protecting every worker’s right to organize and collective bargaining.

* Extending aid for the unemployed.

* Investing in the nation’s deteriorating infrastructure to immediately create jobs.

* Providing aid for state and local governments that specifically targets layoff prevention and hiring.

* Creating industries for the future that use clean energy to spawn new industries manufacturing environmentally-sustainable materials, technologies and products.

“President Obama has been seriously focused on his jobs agenda since he took office, beginning with one of his first acts – saving the American auto industry,” said UAW President Bob King. “The President made a bold and, at the time, politically unpopular choice. He stood with workers and the American auto industry, and the communities whose economies depend on the industry and saved more than one million American jobs. We are grateful for his support of American workers and we are excited to have him join us next week as we gather in Washington.”

The President will address UAW members on Tuesday morning at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel at 2660 Woodley Road, N.W. UAW members will spend Feb. 29 making legislative visits to discuss the union’s fight for job creation with members of Congress.

Obama administration supports workers http://www.uaw.org/page/obama-administration-supports-workers

Michael Linden, Director for Tax and Budget Policy of The Center For American Progress spoke of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)

The Private Sector Layoffs, The Gross Domestic Product and the Total Payroll Employment were in bad shape before the stimulus began, and all three turned around at almost exactly the moment the stimulus
started.

For the transcript: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/02/av/stimulus_transcript.html

“We’ve got a choice:  We can settle for a country where a few people do really, really well, and everybody else struggles to get by.  Or we can restore an economy where everybody gets a fair shot, everybody does their fair share, everybody plays by the same set of rules — from Washington to Wall Street to Main Street.  That’s the America we believe in.

Now, we’re still recovering from one of the worst economic crises in three generations.  We’ve got a long way to go before everybody who wants a good job can find one; before middle-class Americans regain that sense of security that’s been slipping away for too long — long before the recession hit.

But over the last 23 months, we’ve added 3.7 million new jobs.   American manufacturers are creating jobs for the first time since the 1990s.  The economy is growing stronger.  The recovery is speeding up.  And the last thing we can afford to do right now is to go back to the very policies that got us into this mess in the first place.  We can’t afford it.  The last thing we need is for Washington to stand in the way of America’s comeback. “

“Congress needs to stop taxes from going up on 160 million Americans by the end of this month.  And if they don’t act, that’s exactly what will happen.   Congress needs to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance without drama, and without delay, and without linking it to some other ideological side issues. “

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President Obama begins a three-day trip to the Midwest and West Coast, heading to Milwaukee, Wis., to talk about his economy plans, American manufacturing and the importance of companies insourcing and investing in America.

Wednesday, February 15
President Obama travels to Master Lock in Milwaukee, WI

Thursday, February 16
President Obama travels to Corona del Mar, CA and San Francisco, CA

Friday, February 17
President Obama travels to the Boeing Everett Production Facility, Everett, WA

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Study: U.S. recovering faster than its peers

1/30/12 Posted by Ezra Klein - WashingtonPost