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A Better Bargain for Responsible, Middle Class Homeowners

Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address The White House August 10, 2013 Hi, everybody. For the past few weeks, I’ve been visiting folks across America to talk about what we need to do as a country to secure a better bargain for the middle class. I’ve been laying out my ideas for how we can build on the cornerstones of what it means to be middle class in America. A good job. A good educa..

Time to Replace the Sequester with a Balanced Approach to Deficit Reduction

Hi, everybody. Our top priority as a nation must be growing the economy, creating good jobs, and rebuilding opportunity for the middle class. But two months ago, Congress allowed a series of automatic budget cuts to fall across the federal government that would do the opposite. In Washington-speak, these cuts were called the “sequester.” It was a bad idea then. And as the country saw this week, ..

Working Together in the New Year to Grow Our Economy and Shrink Our Deficits

Hi, everybody. Over the past year, as I traveled across the country campaigning for this office, I told you that if I was fortunate enough to be re-elected, I’d work to change a tax code that too often benefited the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.This week, we did that. For the first time in two decades, we raised taxes on the wealthiest 2% of Americans in a bipartisan way, while pre..

Widespread Flu Outbreak; Library of Congress Collects Tweets; Consumer Electronics Show Highlights New Tech

CARL AZUZ, HOST: If you`ve ever posted something on Twitter an thought "I should delete that," we have another reason. You might be able to get rid of it on a Twitter feed, but someone else is holding onto it forever. The explanation`s coming up. I`m Carl Azuz. Welcome to CNN STUDENT NEWS. (MUSIC PLAYING) AZUZ: First up: coughing, sneezing, fever, running nose. There`s nothing unusual about that..

Syria China Australia Alaska New Orleans, Louisiana and Atlanta, Georgia

Syria China Australia Alaska New Orleans, Louisiana and Atlanta, Georgia CARL AZUZ, HOST: Hi, I`m Carl Azuz. And today we`re going to one-up Phineas Fogg. Instead of 80 days, we`re going around the world in 80 seconds for some global headlines at the start of today`s show. Our first stop is in Syria, where a civil war is driving hundreds of thousands of people out of the country. According to es..