The bill makes it easier for people to challenge unequal pay complaints and is designed to help address the wage gap between men and women.
The purpose of the act was to save and create jobs and to provide relief to those most affected by the economic crisis of The president overturns a rule that restricted the amount of federal money that could be used on embryonic stem cell research. Obama hosts the first-ever online discussion at the White House.
She is confirmed in August. The president gives a speech at Cairo University in Egypt, discussing the U. Obama announces the Volcker Rule, which seeks to restrict U. This is the most significant regulatory makeover of the U.
Under the new regulations, Obama sought to increase quality, affordability, and access to healthcare. Obama announces he will approve exploration for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Virginia, which had been previously banned.
This is an agreement to reduce the stockpile of nuclear weapons by the United States and Russia. The funding would be used for space exploration rather than lunar exploration. An explosion on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana results in 11 deaths and a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil rig was leased by BP. Obama delivers a eulogy for the 29 West Virginia coal miners who died in an explosion earlier in the month.
Supreme Court. She is sworn into office in August. Obama discusses the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by BP. The president says that BP will have to pay heavy reparations for their malpractice. The Act gives regulators stronger authority when it comes to breaking up large companies and attempts to protect the consumer by restricting practices in consumer loans and credit cards.
Obama puts into practice the post GI Bill. This bill assists in obtaining a free or cheaper college tuition for those who have served in the U. It sets new standards so that Americans who are deaf, blind, or live with a visual impairment have equal access and opportunity to new technological innovations.
In the midterm elections, Republicans gained 6 seats in the Senate, reducing the Democrats' majority in that chamber from 18 59 to 41 to 6 53 to The GOP also added 63 seats in the House of Representatives, enough to gain control of the House by a to majority in the th Congress. In attempt to get the deficit under control, the president freezes pay raises on federal employees for two years starting on January 1, This funds nutrition and free lunch programs, sets new standards for schools, and allocates money for the implementation of these new provisions.
This extends the tax cuts instituted by President Bush in the early s and also provides additional provisions to promote economic growth in the form of tax cuts.
Armed Forces. At a constituent meeting in Tucson, Arizona, a gunman open fired, shooting 19 people, killing 6 of them. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head; she resigned her seat in the House to focus on her recovery. The President and First Lady traveled to Tucson, and Obama offered his remarks during a memorial service for the victims.
Obama signs a nuclear arms treaty with Russia, called New START, which seeks to develop our security, relations with Russia, and a world without the fear of nuclear weapons. This order permits the United States to resume military trials for detainees. Obama announces the death of Osama Bin Laden, who was the leader of Al-Qaeda, the terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the U. Bin Laden was killed on May 2, , in Pakistan but it was still May 1 in the United States when the president announced his death.
The Budget Control Act becomes law. It raises the federal debt ceiling, causes the United States to avoid default, and creates a bipartisan committee to discuss debt issues.
President Obama makes an address to the joint session of Congress to present the American Jobs Act, which is designed to improve the U. President Obama announces that U. It seeks to eliminate insider trading and prohibits the use of non-public information for profit in the private sector. Obama defeats Republican Mitt Romney to win a second term in office with electoral votes to and 51 percent of the popular vote.
The president addresses the nation after a shooting at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut results in the death of 20 children and 6 adults. He pledges to fight for gun control legislation.
Obama signs the American Taxpayer Relief Act. This extended tax breaks for the majority of Americans while raising the tax rates for top earners.
Barack Obama is inaugurated into his second term as president. He was sworn into office in a private ceremony on Sunday, January 20, but the official ceremony took place the next day. This act seeks to provide increased protection for women under the law by improving law enforcement tools to combat the violence, improving services for victims of violent crimes, and improving awareness and violence reduction practices.
In a speech at Georgetown University, the president announces the Climate Action Plan, which is designed to lower carbon pollution, prepare for the impending effects of climate change, and to address reversing climate change as a global endeavor. Obama delivers remarks on the murder of Trayvon Martin. This act outlines how the government should distribute loans to students and other tactics for helping students with crippling debt.
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Barack Obama: Impact and Legacy. Breadcrumb U. Barack Obama Essays Life in Brief. Life Before the Presidency. Campaigns and Elections. This is a make or break moment for the middle class, and President Obama is working to build an economy that works for everyone — where hard work and responsibility are rewarded.
President Obama believes that every child deserves access to the type of education they need to prepare for the challenges of a new century. President Obama is building the foundation for a clean energy economy, tackling the issue of climate change, and protecting our environment.
Our nation's immigration system is broken. Fixing it is an economic and national security imperative. That's why President Obama is working to pass a common sense, comprehensive set of reforms that ensures everyone plays by the same rules. The U. Bush was deeply unpopular following the U. In , shortly after Obama took office, residents in many countries expressed a sharp increase in confidence in the ability of the U.
While Obama remained largely popular internationally throughout his tenure, there were exceptions, including in Russia and key Muslim nations. And Americans themselves became more wary of international engagement. Views on some high-profile social issues shifted rapidly. Eight states and the District of Columbia legalized marijuana for recreational purposes, a legal shift accompanied by a striking reversal in public opinion: For the first time on record, a majority of Americans now support legalization of the drug.
Even before the court issued its landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges , a majority of Americans said for the first time that they favored same-sex marriage.
As the Obama era draws to a close, Pew Research Center looks back on these and other important social, demographic and political shifts that have occurred at home and abroad during the tenure of the 44th president. And we look ahead to some of the trends that could define the tenure of the 45th, Donald Trump. Even so, the U. In , for the first time, the majority of newborn babies in the U. Nearly one-in-three eligible voters on Election Day were Hispanic, black, Asian or another racial or ethnic minority, reflecting a steady rise since Strong growth in the number of Hispanic eligible voters , in particular U.
Indeed, for the first time, the Hispanic share of the electorate is now on par with the black share. While illegal immigration served as a flashpoint in the tumultuous campaign to succeed Obama, there has been little change in the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U. And for the first time since the s, more Mexican immigrants — both legal and unauthorized — have returned to Mexico from the U.
The share of Americans identifying with evangelical Protestantism, historically black Protestant denominations and other smaller Christian groups, by contrast, have remained fairly stable. At the same time, the large majority of Americans who do identify with a faith are, on average, as religiously observant as they were a few years ago, and by some measures even more so. The tide of demographic changes in the U. Democratic voters are becoming less white, less religious and better-educated at a faster rate than that of the country, while Republicans are aging more quickly than the country as a whole.
Education, in particular, has emerged as an important dividing line in recent years, with college graduates becoming more likely to identify as Democrats and those without a college degree becoming more likely to identify as Republicans.
Partisan divisions in assessments of presidential performance, for example, are wider now than at any point going back more than six decades, and this growing gap is largely the result of increasing disapproval of the chief executive from the opposition party.
Notes: Data from Eisenhower through George H. Bush from Gallup. Because some earlier data did not include partisan leaning, Republicans and Democrats in this graphic do not include leaners. Source: Survey conducted Nov.
Today, more issues cleave along partisan lines than at any point since surveys began to track public opinion. Beginning around , however, they began to diverge.
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