It was great speaking with Imani and Austin, two outstanding @UrbanAlliance Obama Youth Jobs Corps students. They’re proof that when we connect young people with training and meaningful work experience, it benefits our communities and the world. pic.twitter.com/6hXjZNsSXx
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) October 14, 2022
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Dylan Scott: This Chart: Uninsured Rate Drops Under Obamacare
The percentage of uninsured Americans has fallen from 13.9 percent to 10.2 percent since Obamacare coverage took effect, according to new data from the Urban Institute. The difference is even more pronounced in states that expanded Medicaid under the law. In those states, the uninsured rate dropped from 12.6 percent to 8.4 percent from the second quarter of 2013 to the third quarter of 2014.
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Michael Karpman: QuickTake: Uninsurance Rate Down 25 Percent For Working Adults And 31 Percent For Low-Income Workers Since September 2013
Recent HRMS data show an estimated 10.6 million adults ages 18 to 64 gained coverage between September 2013, just before the first open enrollment period for the ACA’s health insurance Marketplaces, and September 2014, just before the second open enrollment period (Long et al. 2014). Between September 2013 and September 2014, the uninsurance rate fell 3.4 percentage points (95% CI [2.0, 4.9]; figure 1) for working nonelderly adults. The share of working nonelderly adults without insurance declined from an estimated 13.6 percent just before the first open enrollment period to 10.2 percent in September 2014, a 25.3 percent decline.
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This Chart: Uninsured rate drops under Obamacare bit.ly/1DGv3TU http://t.co/drkVQZttzf
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Jul
13
News Of The Day
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Powerful words from Sybrina Fulton: “No prom for Trayvon. No high school graduation for Trayvon. No college for Trayvon. No grandkids coming from Trayvon. All because of a law; a law that has prevented the person who shot and killed my son to be held accountable and to pay for this awful crime.”
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The 148-year journey of the Voting Rights Act in only 3 minutes @nytimes @NAACP (via @Upworthy) upworthy.com/pop-quiz-what-…
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Alycee (@jazziz2) July 26, 2013****
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The sad reality of the far right’s blind Obama hatred:
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ObamaCare is freaking awesome….screw you GOP:
Yes America, when implemented properly, #ObamaCare works exactly the way it was intended. patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/20… http://t.co/SEeRrg5TWw
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) July 26, 2013****
Washington Post: Maryland issues insurance rates that are among lowest in U.S.
Maryland insurance officials approved final rates Friday for health plans to be sold in the online marketplace for individuals beginning Oct. 1. The rates offered by nine carriers are among the lowest of the 12 states that have proposed or approved rates for comparison and among the lowest in the D.C. area, according to an analysis by Maryland officials who will be operating the state’s marketplace.
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Darn. Another perfectly good talking point bites the dust. #ObamaCare won't slash workers' hours, report finds nbcnews.to/14LmV6J
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Kennett Area Dems (@KennettDems) July 25, 2013CVS will use its 7,400 North American stores and 375 healthcare fairs to help people sign up for #ObamaCare. politico.com/story/2013/07/…
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) July 26, 2013****
Yes Republicans, there is a war on women:
North Carolina Governor Signs ‘Motorcycle Safety’ #Abortion Bill. ow.ly/nmDWM #MotorcycleVagina #SB353 #NCgov
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RH Reality Check (@rhrealitycheck) July 26, 2013****
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Consumer sentiment rises to highest level in six years in July http://t.co/tCfYXJgFyW
— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) July 26, 2013
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“I didn’t want to be right,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says about her prediction that striking a key prong of the Voting Rights Act will lead to a wave of minority voter suppression, “but sadly I am.” In an interview with the Associated Press’ Mark Sherman, Ginsburg reiterated one of the core points of her dissent from the five Republican justices’ voting rights decision — “The notion that because the Voting Rights Act had been so tremendously effective we had to stop it didn’t make any sense to me,” Ginsburg said. “And one really could have predicted what was going to happen” once the law was struck down.
Justice Ginsburg reacts to epidemic of voter suppression laws: Told ya so #NotoriousRBG thkpr.gs/174Vel8
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ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) July 26, 2013****
A strong economy grows from the middle out. Watch @OFA's new ad about #ABetterBargain for hard working Americans: OFA.BO/Gs3B27
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 26, 2013****
@VP: VP & son-in-law Howard stop for some lime juice & talk w/ employees @ a hawker market in Singapore
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Yes Republicans, the truth does indeed hurt:
Quick reminder for @NRSC:
Weiner resigned after pressure from Dems
Vitter is still a Senator thanks to your support
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Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 26, 2013****
President Obama: "Repealing Obamacare and cutting spending is not an economic plan." We deserve #ABetterBargain: OFA.BO/QWrTpJ
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 26, 2013****
President Obama walks across the South Lawn as he departs the White House. Obama invited all the members of his cabinet and their families to spend the day at Camp David.
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Sweeeeeeeeeet!
JUST IN: President Obama to award Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sgt. Ty Carter for courageous actions while serving in Afghanistan #MOH
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NBC Nightly News (@nbcnightlynews) July 26, 2013****
Cuteness alert!
Rock 'n roll. http://t.co/WrDlME6OlM
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 26, 2013Excuse me, did you leave your cat outside? http://t.co/Vxh3Ra8gUh
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Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) July 26, 2013****
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Back Home
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Chicago Tribune: During a trip to her hometown today, first lady Michelle Obama applauded the work of a South Loop non-profit group that is helping high school students get job experience and advice about attending college.
Obama joined Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his wife, Amy Rule, for a visit this morning to Urban Alliance Chicago, the career training program.
… “To you all students, for having the courage to step outside your comfort zone and do something that was probably initially pretty scary,” Obama told about 50 teens gathered to see her. “I know that feeling. I was you guys. I say that all the time. Living on the South Side, looking at these buildings, wondering what goes on in those offices.”
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… with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago First Lady Amy Rule
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First Lady Michelle Obama speaks in a video broadcast at The 2013 ESPY Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on July 17
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11
in a word……
‘Newstainer’: Employees and ‘guests’ of major corporate broadcast radio, tv and cable organizations whose primary function is to generate cash flow by manipulating and sensationalizing any information, and, whenever possible, do so to also undermine President Obama, destroy the American middle class, erode Medicare/Medicaid, privatize Social Security, and continue to undermine the American economy if that’s what it takes to defeat President Obama and Democratic candidates in 2012.
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Inspired by Urban Dictionary’s definition of ‘Gone Hamsher‘, Bobfr came up with ‘Newstainer’.
Bobfr? Will you marry me 😉
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The Obama Diary 
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