Obama’s First 100 Days Mark Major Wins for Working Families

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/04/29/obamas-first-100-days-mark-major-wins-for-working-families/#more-13374

by Mike Hall, Apr 29, 2009

It’s worth repeating—again and again: What a difference an election makes, especially an election in which working family voters pool their strength and efforts to put an end to the most anti-worker, corporate-beholden administration in modern times and elect a president who shares our values and dreams.

Today is the 100th day of Barack Obama’s presidency. In the past three months, Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and the Democratic Congress—operating with a Republican axe hanging over it—have made major strides to rebuild America for working families.


As AFL-CIO President John Sweeney stated:

Over their first 100 days in office, President Obama and Vice President Biden have laid down a foundation of change for America’s working families. They have taken big, concrete steps on the economy, health care and the protection of workers’ rights that will build a more prosperous and fair future for working people and America. We look forward to working with the administration to pass the Employee Free Choice Act and comprehensive national health care reform in the near future.

The Obama budget that Congress is set to pass this week lays a solid foundation to restore the economy, makes a major down payment on comprehensive health care reform and signals significant investment in education, clean energy and green jobs. The budget also moves away from the failed economic polices of the past and includes tax cuts for middle-class working families, rather than for the wealthy and Big Business.

Obama shaped and signed into law an economic recovery package that could create and save as many as 3.5 million jobs; invests in roads, bridges, mass transit, energy-efficient buildings, flood control, clean water projects and other infrastructure projects; provides state fiscal relief to protect vital services and prevent layoffs; contains strong Buy American provisions; and extends and increases unemployment benefits. He opened up the White House to new transparency, including launching a website, www.recovery.gov, where taxpayers can track how the economic stimulus money is being spent.

Within days of taking office, Obama signed two major bills that had been killed by Bush vetoes or veto threats. On Jan. 29 he signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, overturning a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision that made it virtually impossible for workers to challenge pay discrimination based on gender.

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[dcsmart]

1. the ball is still rolling...K & R

cheers to him :toast: