DAILY SNAPSHOT
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Weekly Address: It's Time for Congress To Pass a Responsible Budget

In this week's address, the President discussed the significant progress we have made in our economy since the financial crisis seven years ago this week, and the steps we can take to build on that momentum and strengthen the economy for the long term. Thanks to the hard work and resilience of folks around the country, our businesses have created over 13 million jobs over the past 66 straight months, housing is bouncing back, manufacturing is growing again, and the unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been in over seven years.

We’ve come a long way from the darkest days of the financial crisis, but there is still more to be done. The President has called on Republicans in Congress to stop playing games with our economic progress and instead do its job and pass a budget that reverses the harmful cuts known as the sequester and avoids shutting down the federal government.

Watch the President's Weekly Address here

A More Perfect Union -- Building Welcoming Communities Campaign to Strengthen Immigration Integration

The White House Task Force on New Americans launches the "Stand Stronger" Citizenship Awareness Campaign to raise awareness on U.S. citizenship.

The White House Task Force on New Americans launched the “Stand Stronger” Citizenship Awareness Campaign. The goal of the Campaign is to raise awareness about the rights, responsibilities, and importance of U.S. citizenship and to provide more information on the naturalization process, along with new tools and resources to prepare for it.

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We Stand with Ahmed (and We Hope He'll Join Us for Astronomy Night):

U.S. Chief Data Scientist D.J. Patil shares why he's proud to see people across the country standing up for innovation and intellectual curiosity today, and the President weighs in.

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5 Indicators That Show We Turned a Depression-Like Shock into a Six-Year Expansion

Seven years after the financial crisis, check out these charts to see how President Obama's policy decisions helped America narrowly avoid another Great Depression.

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West Wing Week: 09/18/2015 or, "FAFSA! (fafsa, fafsa, fafsa, fafsa)"

This week, the President marked the 14th anniversary of 9/11, met with troops around the world at a multimedia town hall at Fort Meade, crashed a back-to-school bus tour in Iowa, sat down with esteemed author Marilynne Robinson, and hosted Connecticut Huskies, Spanish royalty, and genuine American heroes at the White House. That's September 11th to September 17th, or "FAFSA! (fafsa, fafsa, fafsa, fafsa)."

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