Obama, Celebrities, Politicians And Tech Co’s Come Together To Launch Coding Education Push

Back in January, brothers Ali Partovi and Hadi Partovi launched a new non-profit organization called Code.org with a simple mission: Change the perception America has of coding and computer science and make those subjects accessible to the masses.

There’s no better indication of just how far Code.org has come in less than a year — and how much America now supports the need to make STEM a greater part of our national priority — than what you will witness over the coming week. Tonight, in celebration of the arrival of Computer Science Education Week (December 9th – 15th), President Barack Obama and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor both separately issued video statements today asking every student in the U.S. to learn to code.


Obama, Celebrities, Politicians And Tech Co’s Come Together To Launch Coding Education Push 

Weighing Choice for Fed, Obama Offers His Party a Defense of Summers

Facing dissent from Congressional Democrats, President Obama on Wednesday offered a strong defense of his potential choice of Lawrence H. Summers to head the Federal Reserve, though he said no final selection had been made.
For the first time, he offered up the names of three possible successors to the current Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke: Mr. Summers, a former senior economic adviser to the president; Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s vice chairwoman; and Donald L. Kohn, a former Fed vice chairman. Mr. Obama said he would probably make the decision this fall. 
Weighing Choice for Fed, Obama Offers His Party a Defense of Summers

ObamaCare call center offers jobs with no health benefits

A soon-to-be-opened call center meant to help teach the public about ObamaCare is under fire for offering many of its new employees part-time positions — in turn denying them benefits under the very law they are helping to implement.
The Contra Costa Times reports the call center, which is set to be opened Oct. 1, attracted about 7,000 applicants for 200 jobs after the county won the right to operate it earlier this year. Many workers and local politicians say they believed that the majority of the positions at the center would be full-time with benefits.
ObamaCare call center offers jobs with no health benefits

Obama Offers Jobs, Boehner Offers Sabotage

House Speaker John Boehner is leading what is arguably the most anti-jobs Congress in modern history, and he and his co-conspirators in the Senate have been systematically sabotaging the economy and the opportunity for millions of Americans to go back to work.
Obama Offers Jobs, Boehner Offers Sabotage 

Obama: GOP offers 'endless parade of distractions'

GALESBURG, Ill. — President Obama blasted Republicans on Wednesday for an "endless parade of distractions" and called on Congress to work with him to buck up the country's lackluster economy.
Obama: GOP offers 'endless parade of distractions'

Obama to Begin New Series of Economic Addresses

(WASHINGTON) — Drawing renewed attention to the economy, President Barack Obama will return this week to an Illinois college where he once spelled out a vision for an expanded and strengthened middle class as a freshman U.S. senator, long before the Great Recession would test his presidency.

Obama to Begin New Series of Economic Addresses