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Obama for America
 
Card (African Americans), 5"x7", Nov. 7, 2011 from Obama Minneapolis, MN office grand opening.

HOW PRESIDENT OBAMA is FIGHTING FOR YOU

President Obama is focused on creating jobs and restoring economic security for African Americans and all Americans.  He understands that too many African Americans have been hurt by a decade of declining wages and unemployment and he's fought for policies that give everyone a fair shot and the opportunity to succeed.  That's why he's pushed for job training and education reforms, ending health disparities, and cracking down on credit card and mortgage abuses by the biggest banks.  He knows that the American people live up to their responsibilities each and every day, and it's time that leaders in Washington live up to theirs.


PRESIDENT OBAMA IS FIGHTING FOR YOU

- President Obama has appointed four African Americans to Cabinet-rank positions.

- Through the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), the Obama administration helped African-American clients secure more than $929 million in contracts and financing in 2009 and $2.4 billion in 2010. Those funds have helped businesses create and save the jobs of many African Americans.

- President Obama's Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 provided small businesses with more than $12 billion in lending support, with a 21 percent share of the loans going to minority-owned businesses.

- President Obama dedicated $5 billion to early learning programs like Head Start and Early Head Start through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and extended $2.55 billion in funding to Historically Black Colleges and Universities over the next 10 years.

- President Obama's White House Business Council launched a series of Urban Entrepreneurship Forums aimed at connecting local entrepreneurs to public and private resources to help them grow.

- President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which makes it easier for African-American and all women to demand that equal work means equal pay.

- President Obama instituted a consumer protection agency that makes sure credit card companies, mortgage companies, and payday lenders can't unfairly prey on American consumers.

- The Affordable Care Act extends Medicaid eligibility to nearly 4 million additional African Americans and helps to reduce health disparities for 41 million African Americans by expanding access to preventive care.

- President Obama provided half a billion dollars for adult employment and training programs for low-income individuals, and he dedicated more than a billion dollars to job training and summer jobs programs for youth ages 14 to 24.

- Last year President Obama extended unemployment benefits for as many as 7 million jobless Americans who would have otherwise lost them.

- The earned income and child tax credits will help an estimated 2.2 million African-American families and 4.7 million African-American children by allowing working Americans to keep more of what they earn.

- The Obama administration announced the settlement of the long-standing Pigford II litigation, and the President signed a bill providing funding for African Americans who were discriminated against by USDA programs.

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