The Complexity Of Inequality

Economist Raj Chetty is not only identifying the decline in opportunity we’ve seen in recent decades—but trying to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 23, 2019

Fighting Income Inequality

This is worth a read: a thought-provoking reminder that education reform isn’t a cure-all. As a supporter of educat… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 18, 2019

Deeper Than Numbers

President Obama, on the passing of Alan Krueger: https://t.co/G6dsa87sif

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David Gura (@davidgura) March 18, 2019

The Real SOTU

Get. It. Together.

President @BarackObama doesn't have time for these 7 excuses not to vote. https://t.co/2Etpm6taTq

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ATTN: (@attn) October 17, 2018

A Maine Meeting

Dear Mr. President

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Jeanne Marie Laskas

A girl doesn’t want her mum to be deported, and can the president please help? A guy finally admits to his wife that he’s gay, and now he would like to tell the president. A car dealer writes to say his bank is shut­ting him down, and thanks for nothing, Mr President. A vet who can’t stop seeing what he saw in Iraq writes a barely intelligible rant that makes his point all the more intelligible: “Help.” An inmate admits to selling crack, but he wants the president to know he is not a lost cause: “I have dreams Mr President, big dreams.” A man can’t find a job. A woman can’t find a job. A teacher with advanced certification can’t find a damn job. A lesbian couple just got married; thank you, Mr President. A man sends his medical bills; a woman sends her student loan statements; a child sends her drawing of a cat; a mother sends her teen­ager’s report card – straight As, isn’t that awesome, Mr President?

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The Letters In Pictures

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I noticed that over by his desk, on a wall, he had hung the framed letter from Natoma Canfield; Obama had said she reminded him of his mum, who died at 52 of a similar cancer. The letter had stood as a reminder to him of his commitment to healthcare reform. “The only instruction I gave was that I wanted every packet to be representative,” he continued. “And understanding that it wouldn’t be perfect. It didn’t mean that, you know, out of every 10 letters, there had to be two positive and two negative and three neutral and one funny. It wasn’t formulaic like that. But that was the one thing I insisted on – that this is not useful to me if all I’m getting are, you know, ‘happy birthday’ wishes. And I think they did a won­derful job of channelling the American people in that way.”

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President Obama: I Believe In You

Today I’m at the University of Illinois to deliver a simple message to young people all over the country: You need… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 07, 2018

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Them Pesky Facts

Trump Jr. claims GDP growth never hit 2 percent under Obama — it did 15 times hill.cm/wIdeo2o https://t.co/KS4gPTIOVt

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The Hill (@thehill) July 28, 2018

I knew all these lies were coming (Obama beat 4 percent multiple times in individual quarters and obviously “broke… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Ben White (@morningmoneyben) July 28, 2018

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@DonaldJTrumpJr Is lying a hereditary trait in the Trump Family? Obama broke 2 many, many times. Daddy Trump still… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Maggie Jordan: (@MaggieJordanACN) July 27, 2018

@DonaldJTrumpJr Obama hit over 2% GDP 15 times. He went above 4% GDP four times, including hitting 5.1% in 2014.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) July 28, 2018

Numbers

experts laugh when people have no idea what they’re talking about. Under Obama, growth hit 5.2% in a quarter twitter.com/donaldjtrumpjr…

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John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 28, 2018