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Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011
 

Your Weekly Address: Traveling the Country, Winning the Future

The President discusses his recent travels and the examples he’s seen of how America can win the future. He urges Congress to heed these examples in the coming budget debate and to tighten our belts without eliminating investments in innovation, education and infrastructure.

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Weekly Wrap Up

Small Business Forum: President Obama travels to Cleveland, Ohio, to visit the Winning the Future Forum on Small Business. He met with dozens of small business leaders, and even stopped by a live online chat with Austan Goolsbee to answer your questions. Also, SBA Administrator Karen Mills chaired a breakout session on entrepreneurship.

Behind-the-Scenes Video: President Obama hosts a screening of Thurgood at the White House movie theater -- an HBO film about the life and career of Thurgood Marshall, the remarkable Civil Rights lawyer and the first African-American Supreme Court Justice. Watch the video.

Turmoil in Libya: President Obama says the violence in Libya is "outrageous" and "unacceptable," and that his Administration is looking at the "full range of options we have to respond to this crisis." Watch the video.

The Energy of Entrepreneurs: Energy Secretary Steven Chu was also in Cleveland for the Small Business Forum, and met with innovators who are on the cutting edge of clean energy technology.

Council on Jobs and Competitiveness: The President attended the first meeting of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Read about the meeting, and how the President is working with leaders from across all sectors of the economy to create jobs and improve American prosperity.

West Wing Week: "Don't Bump My Atoms".

The Commencement Challenge: The deadline for schools to apply has been extended to March 11th, 2011. Tell us how your school is preparing students for the economy of the future, and you could have President Obama speak at your commencement.

A New Facebook Page: Kalpen Modi announces a new Facebook page to help young adults find insurance coverage.

Black History Month: WhiteHouse.gov celebrates Black History Month with a series of blog posts highlighting the contributions of African Americans whose work is helping to achieve the President's goals for winning the future.

More Visitors Records Online: The White House releases visitor records that were created in November 2010 or requested in January 2011 -- more than 1,000,000 records released to date.

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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 11:16 PM
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Weekly Women's Update

Welcome to the Council on Women and Girls weekly highlights! This week, President Obama went to Cleveland Ohio to discuss how cities all across America can reinvent themselves to compete in a robust and modern economy. In Washington, the President hosted the first meeting of the President’s Council of Jobs and Competitiveness, which seeks to provide non partisan advice about strengthening our National economy and creating job opportunities. The President also addressed the crisis in Libya and urged the people of the region to strive for peace amidst monumental political change.

Read below for more information on our activities. And remember, if you have friends or family who would like to join our Council on Women and Girls efforts, please have them click here

Highlights

President Obama Speaks on the Turmoil in Libya: “The Violence Must Stop”
Speaking from the White House, the President says the violence in Libya is “outrageous” and “unacceptable,” and that his Administration is looking at the “full range of options we have to respond to this crisis.”

The Weekly Address: Winning the Future at Intel
The President speaks from the Intel campus in Oregon about educating our kids for the jobs of tomorrow so we can make sure America wins the future.

Listening to Small Business, in Cleveland and Across the Country
The President joins some of his top economic advisors in Cleveland for a "Winning the Future" Forum on Small Business and stops by an online session with CEA Chairman Austan Goolsbee to take a couple questions.

President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness
The Council on Jobs and Competitiveness was created to provide non-partisan advice to the President on continuing to strengthen the Nation's economy. Learn about the Council’s first meeting.

Lorain County Community College is Winning the Future for High-Growth Entrepreneurs
Northeast Ohio has staked its future on high-growth entrepreneurship. That’s why President Obama brought five Cabinet secretaries and his top economic advisors to Cleveland for a White House Winning the Future Forum on Small Business.

What the Health Care Law Means for Women
The Affordable Care Act gives women the freedom from worrying about having their health insurance coverage dropped, denied, or limited if they, or someone in their family, is in an accident or becomes sick.  

Help with Insurance Coverage for Young Adults on Facebook
The Department of Health and Human Services launched a new facebook page that contains step-by-step instructions on how young adults can stay on their parents’ plan and features a video with Kalpen Modi, Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.

As apart of a series to celebrate Black History Month, we have this and the following post about extraordinary African American women who are helping the Obama Administration achieve its goal of winning the future.

The Sound of Young America: The History of Motown
First Lady Michelle Obama welcomes Smokey Robinson, John Legend, Berry Gordy, and others to the White House to lead a youth workshop on the legacy and history of Motown.

Behind-the-Scenes Video: “Thurgood” Screening at the White House
President Obama recently hosted a screening of Thurgood at the White House movie theater -- an HBO film about the life and career of Thurgood Marshall, the remarkable Civil Rights lawyer and the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.

West Wing Week: “Don’t Bump My Atoms”
This week, President Obama held events in Oregon and Ohio focused on winning the future through investments in innovation and small business, and convened his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness at the White House.

Photo of the Day

   

President Barack Obama drops by the Youth Engagement Roundtable at the Winning the Future Forum on Small Business at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 22, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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