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I want Sasha and Malia and your daughters and sons to grow up in an America where both work and family are a part of the American Dream, and where that Dream is available to all. So I hope you look closely at the ideas in this booklet and let us know what you think. Together, we can change America. Sincerely, Barack Obama

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angiemartin22 2 days ago

Hello President Obama,
I am a working mother of 2 and a full time student. My education loans ar about $35,000 and I still have a year to go. I have not qualified for any grants because I am married. There is no way this amount will get paid. Or at least for 20 years. I cannot afford this and still pay bills. Are there any grants available for me?

Angela Martin
Florida

Msfybrown 15 days ago

Hello President Obama,
I would like to know what is going to happen with unemployed workers that are/going planning to go back to school?
I am a 27 unemployed working that was getting benefits until the cut me off without notice. I started school June 8th, I did my payment request on the June 15th as I am suppost to, informed TWC that I started school. I thought I was doing the right thing by informing them about this, but I wasn't. In return i was denied my unemployment due to the fact that i have returned to school.
The reason for their decision was: "Our investigation found you are unavailable for work because you are going to school during the same hours as your regular work and you will not quit school to go to work.
Mr. President I don't have a job, and have not had a job in the passed 4 months, not that I'm not looking for one, or don't want one, but its hard to try to find one. I am more than willing to work and take care of my home and not have to draw unemployment but unfortunatly that has not happened.
I decieded to go back to school becasue I couldn't find a job, and I didn't enjoy just sitting at home and doing nothing to improve my life. Now my family and I are being penalized for actions that i have taken that TWC does not agree with. I have family in another city of Texas that get their unemployment, are in school and also have help from the WIA Workforce Investment Act Program.
Is there any help out there that I can get so that I can get my unemployment back or help to pay for college and my bills that are not going anywhere?
Thank you
Flora Yvette Brown in Texas


almost home 16 days ago

Dear Mr. president i am a single mom I have raised 4 children, one which is still at home. I started college 10 yrs ago but had to quit within the first two years do to my divorce. I have never received child suport and have had to get help from the welfare for medical i work as a certified nurses aide in a nursing home making 10.75 an hour the board of education takes fifteen percent for my school loans and has benn going on two years now but yet only about 400 dollars goes towards my loan i would like to return to school to get a nursing degree but i cant do that because i cant afford it. I have a 15 year old daughter who says why bother to get an edcation theres no way to get ahead in this country. Im affraid that is what alot of youth are feeling right now . I have worked very hard for a very long time. Im struggling to keep my house(which is falling apart) and i cant really afford to keep the utilities up because i have to put gas in my car, eat and such we just had a freind put our two dogs down because i could not afford to feed them. Im pretty tough i have had to be but my daughter on the other hand is not , she is avery depressed fifteen year old who doesn't look forward to the future. how do you tell her it will get better when there is no proof of that?

MARCHRIS 4 months ago

MR.PRES.I.M A50YEAR OLD WOMAN WITH A DISABLITIY.THE GOV, TAKES MONEY OUT OF MY SS CHECK.I CANT AFFORD THAT I HAVE A DAUGHTER WHO HAS A HANDICAPP WITH HER 4 YEAR OLD SON I HELP TAKE CARE OF.THE GOV. SAYS IT TAKE120 DAYS FOR THE EDUATION DEPT WILL LOOK OVER MY PAPER WORK TO HAVE MY SCHOOL LOAN GONE.120DAYS IS A LONG TIME WHY NOT MAKE THSE GOV.WORKER TO GET ON THE BALL AND WORK.PAPERWORK SHOUND'NT TAKE THAT LONG.

wowkey 4 months ago

where that Dream is available to all.

shinigami asasin 5 months ago

Mudah-mudahan dengan kepemimpinan Barry, terciptalah perdamaian di bumi ini, "Selamat menjalanlankan Tugas Mulia, Barry" ST Haryono-Indonesia

fresno93 7 months ago

wow i have a feeling we will all be moved to tears

AprilTara 10 months ago

Mr. & Mrs. Obama,

Never in my 20 years of voting has a politician (and his wife!) moved me to tears. I was blown away last night by Michelle's speech and after watching you thank your wife and talk to your little girls via satellite, I said to my friends on Twitter "Now THAT'S family values!"

Like Barack's mother, I am a single mom also. I am struggling just to stay afloat and every day when I wake up, I wonder "is this going to be the day I drown?"

See, on top of being a single mom and trying to survive in this atrocious economy, I am also living with a mental illness. Life is difficult enough coping with a mental illness as it is but when you add gas prices, unemployment, and food prices on top of it, I don't know how much more I can take.

But you give me hope, Mr. Obama. When you talk about your plans for change, I believe you! You have connected with the American people in a way that we have been starving and aching for. For the first time, we really feel like someone is listening.

Earlier this week, I lost my job. Again. This is the second job I've lost this year. I was working at home because I could no longer afford to commute and now that I don't have any job at all, I can't afford the gas to go on interviews. I've tried starting my own business but no one can afford to hire me as a virtual legal assistant.

Due to a vicious custody war my daughter's father has waged on me, I am being forced to take my daughter to a school 30 hours away from my home. That's 120 miles and 2 hours of driving every day. My attorney begged the court to let me enroll my child in the local school and when he refused, we asked the State to help me with transportation and they refused. The father is not paying child support either because DHHS interfered in that too. So what am I supposed to do? Get her to school and lose my house? Or pay my rent and lose my daughter because she's truant?

On top of that, I have an ex-husband who got away with kidnapping my son and I went a year without seeing him because I couldn't find him and I couldn't afford to hire an attorney. I worked in a law firm for a while and one of the attorneys there helped me at least get visitation but when I lost that job, I lost my representation. So when I showed up in court to represent myself, I didn't get a chance to speak, the Judge signed off on the order the other attorney submitted and I was stuck with a child support order that is 50% of my income. PLUS my ex-husband slipped a clause in there making me pay for his transportation costs when HE'S the one that moved 3 hours away to another state. When I refused to pay him that, he used his connections as a probation officer to have my visits with my son suspended and I didn't see him for another 4 months. (See, after he took off with my son, my son went downhill fast and was admitted to the hospital for being suicidal and was later charged with a felon...

kineo 10 months ago

Mr. Obama,

Day Care costs have gone up at three times the rate of inflation. Full time child care for 3-month old twins now costs over $40,000 annually in Massachusetts. This is on par with the cost of higher education. Once you account for income tax, a women must earn over $60K to afford to send her twins to child care -- and that's just to break even.

In Europe, public education begins with pre-school at age 3. In this country, only private child care or pre-school is available until a child is 5-6 years old.

What do you propose to address this issue of rising child care costs?

I would like to see public education available at age 3 and a major tax break for families with children under the age of 6.

jaimleon 10 months ago

Obama, Thank you for your plan to continue preventative support for pregnancy and increase funding to planned parenthood! As a woman who did not have healthcare for almost 5 years, I could not have survived without programs like planned parenthood and i know i'm not the only one, these programs do great work, thank you for supporting them!

thomasjefferson 10 months ago

efayew, I don't think you completely understood cganiere's concerns based on your suggestion. Here is another perspective that I submit for your thoughtful consideration:

Suppose that there are two different gardens. In the first garden, everything that you plant, water, and harvest is distributed by a computer that tries to determine the best possible allocation of the food. In the second garden, the food that you grow is ultimately yours and you are allowed to eat it, trade it, give it to the needy, or feed your family with it.

Now suppose these gardens are the food supplies for two different nations. Which nation do you think would have the most food? Which nation would you want to live in?

efayew 11 months ago

I do understand your concern, but imagine how we feel in Washington, DC! We pay taxes to benefit you and the whole world (foreign aid), but we don't even have representation in Congress. Work for Statehood for us, and we will work in an Obama Administration to be sure the burden on all of us is lightened.

cganiere 11 months ago

Working families are taxed to pay the federal employees. It is over taxation that causes the struggle that many have. Open each utility bill - there are a variety of taxes. Look at your paycheck and imagine the income tax withholding disappearing. If the federal government were to shrink to its 1979 size we could eliminate the income tax. How many "struggling" families would continue to struggle after a 10-25% take home pay increase?

The Federal Government has "enumerated powers" it is precisely the overstepping of these bounds that has created a government too expensive for working class people. Our politicians try to mitigate the problems with $3 TRILLION government by giving back a billion here or there.

efayew 11 months ago

Federal workers are human beings, too. Why wouldn't you want them to benefit?

cganiere 11 months ago

I give this an "F".
While all these measures sound appealing. None of these are the responsibility of the Federal Government. It will be another morass of wasteful spending. It will benefit the federal workers far more than anyone else.

efayew 11 months ago

Great. Just what we've been waiting for. We always knew that John McCain couldn't touch Barack on issues of special concern to women. We need to share this plan with our families and friends right away! Thank you Senator Obama. It will be great to have a thoughtful person like you in the White House. Blessings.

Questionmaster 11 months ago

And not ONE word about all those parents, who struggle day in-day out with children who have Autism. We are the folks who have to run EVERY DAY the extra mile.
Once, when i had no children, i was the one who dreamed to be well- educated with a nice job.
But with 3 autistic children, life turned out different and while i am the last one to complain- you always try to make the best of it- i think it's strange to be ignored.
There are a lot of family's like ours...have a look at it, and see things how they are.Of course i would like to have a full time job...be someone, but with kids with special needs it's out of reach...at last for the next 10 or 15 years.

thomasjefferson 11 months ago

I thought I was being tough on the document, but poisonedH20 doesn't even need to read it to say its not "left" enough. Interesting.

thomasjefferson 11 months ago

I apologize if it seems that my "guard is up". I welcome a conversation as well..

I think the correct number of sick days per year is the number of sick days agreed upon between employee and employer :)

It may sound good to employees to have a government mandated number of sick days for everyone. However, most government regulations have unforeseen consequences. The consequence of requiring 7 days could be that many companies decide seven is good enough and so they don't offer more. Or maybe a company that would like to offer less paid time off has to decrease compensation or fire people to maintain the business.

Is it even good for a company to have "sick days" instead of simply "paid time off"? Many of the best companies have realized that its better to just allow employees to manage their own time off and use it whether they are sick or not... removing the incentive to call in sick when not ill. If this idea were enacted, many companies that already offer more than 7 days a year paid time off would have to rewrite their policies, likely making them less beneficial to employees!

I also believe that many people will read the statement that literally says: "Obama will require that employers provide seven paid sick days per year" and think that the President somehow actually can do that. It would be much better if it said: "Obama believes that employers should provide at least seven paid sick days per year".

Karlaethan 11 months ago

TomJeff,
Don't be so cynical. I like your post. I think this is an outline. A starting point to "begin a conversation". If you're against 7 sick days/year perhaps 4-5 might suit you better? I am willing and wanting to talk. Please lower your guard a bit, huh? :)

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