Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, itโs an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.
Barack ObamaSo I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God.
Barack ObamaEffective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are two steps removed from a number associated with a terrorist organization instead of three.
Barack ObamaIt's my job as President and Congressโs job to maker sure that thereโs some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that weโve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery packageโฆ
Barack ObamaI am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. This new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many Americans.
Barack Obama