Articles tagged with: obama administration
Startup America Policy Challenge: Universities Respond Aneesh Chopra is the United States Chief Technology Officer and in this role serves as an Assistant to the President and Associate Director for Technology within the Office of Science & Technology Policy. He works to advance the President’s technology agenda by fostering new ideas and encouraging government-wide coordination […]
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Introducing The Veterans Job Bank … … The White House unveiled several initiatives that will help match our returning Veterans with jobs here at home including the Veterans Job Bank, an online tool of private/public partnerships that allows Veterans to search for available jobs by their skills or their zip code. ### Read also. Open […]
Veterans Employment Network President Obama believes that no veteran should have to fight for a job at home after they fight for our nation overseas. The American Jobs Act includes two tax credits that would benefit firms that hire unemployed veterans and veterans with service-connected disabilities. But our unemployed veterans can’t wait for Congress to act, so the […]
Open Innovation for Heroes – Introducing the Veterans Job Bank Today, the Obama Administration launched the Veterans Job Bank, a new search tool designed to help connect veterans with employers. The Job Bank works by bringing jobs listings directly to veterans—instead of the other way around—via a search widget that provides a single window into the myriad job […]
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By the Numbers: 500,000 President Obama believes that no veteran should have to fight for a job after fighting for our nation overseas. That’s why he’s introduced a host of new tools to help connect veterans to jobs in the civilian workforce, including the Veterans Job Bank, which has more than 500,000 job listings with private sector […]
We Can’t Wait: Obama Administration Announces New Initiatives to Get Veterans Back to Work The overall unemployment rate ticked down last month and our economy has added more than 350,000 private sector jobs over the past three months. But, over 850,000 veterans were unemployed as of October and the jobless rate for post-9/11 veterans was […]
National HIV/AIDS Strategy National HIV/AIDS Strategy A Vision for our Future … … Learn more about the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. One of the President’s top HIV/AIDS policy priorities is the development and implementation of a National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS). There are three primary goals for the NHAS: Reducing HIV incidence Increasing access to care and […]
Fact Sheet: Obama Administration Takes Action to Reduce Prescription Drug Shortages in the U.S. … The White House Office of the Press Secretary October 31, 2011 Fact Sheet: Obama Administration Takes Action to Reduce Prescription Drug Shortages in the U.S. While the Food and Drug Administration has successfully prevented 137 drug shortages since the beginning […]
We Can’t Wait: Obama Administration Takes Action to Reduce Prescription Drug Shortages, Fight Price Gouging … The White House Office of the Press Secretary October 31, 2011 President Issues Executive Order, Backs Legislation to Require Drug Companies to Report Shortages President Obama today will sign an Executive Order directing the Food and Drug Administration […]
By the Numbers: 650 Percent The number of prescription drug shortages tripled between 2005 and 2010. Besides having serious consequences for people’s health and well-being, drug shortages drive vendors to charge outragous prices for drugs that are normally affordable when in stock. One report found that price-gouging vendors mark up prices on drugs in short […]
