What You Need to Know About the New Contraception Guidance:
This week, the Obama administration took important steps to eliminate any ambiguity around the reforms that the Affordable Care Act calls for. Under the law, most insurers must now cover at least one form of birth control with no out-of-pocket expenses in each identified category.
In Case You Missed It: The First Lady’s Powerful Remarks to Tuskegee University’s Class of 2015
This past Saturday, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered the commencement address to the Class of 2015 at Tuskegee University — a historically black university in Tuskegee, Alabama. Founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881, Tuskegee is the only university in America to be designated as a National Historic Site.
The White House Celebrates Entrepreneurs Around the World
President welcomed emerging entrepreneurs from across the country and around the world to the White House to honor their achievements in their fields of business. He also announced new commitments in support of the Spark Global Entrepreneurship Initiative — a bold goal of generating $1 billion in new investment for emerging entrepreneurs worldwide by 2017.
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“I am a black man who grew up without a father, and I know the costs that I paid for that.”
— President Obama at yesterday’s discussion on poverty at Georgetown University
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Poverty and Opportunity in Your Community: What Are You Seeing?
This week, we want to hear from you about some of the pressing issues in your own community related to poverty and opportunity.
President Obama sat down with Harvard professor Robert Putnam and American Enterprise Institute president Arthur Brooks for a discussion on poverty, moderated by Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne. Now we want to hear from you on this important topic.

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