By The Admin on April 30, 2009
President Barack Obama says the best way to help hard-hit minority communities is to help the entire nation thrive.
Obama was asked Wednesday about his specific plans to help black communities, which tend to have higher unemployment rates than whites.
The president said the economic stimulus plan approved by Congress will tend to help the nation’s vulnerable [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, White House
By The Admin on April 29, 2009
The Obama administration joined a federal judge Wednesday in urging Congress to end a racial disparity by equalizing prison sentences for dealing and using crack versus powdered cocaine.
“Jails are loaded with people who look like me,” U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, an African-American, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing.
Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer said the [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on April 29, 2009
The US Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday while debating whether to invalidate key parts of the landmark Voting Rights Act protecting the rights of minorities at the ballot box.
At issue is a provision of the law that requires the Justice Department to preapprove any changes to voting districts, polling locations or election procedures in nine [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues
By The Admin on April 29, 2009
Banks failing and the economy in shambles, the new U.S. president reassured a nationwide audience that his administration was putting America back on the right track.
“It was the government’s job to straighten out this situation and do it as quickly as possible,” Franklin Delano Roosevelt said in the first of a series of radio addresses [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on April 29, 2009
President Barack Obama has decided to name Mignon Clyburn as a commissioner to the Federal Communications Commission, the White House said on Wednesday.
Clyburn has been a member of the South Carolina Public Service Commission since 1998, involved in regulating the state’s investor-owned public utilities, including telecommunications service providers, the White House said.
Before her election to [...]
Posted in Federal Government, White House
