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White House Fact Sheet on Strategy for American Innovation: Securing Our Economic Growth

“America’s future economic growth and international competitiveness depend on our capacity to innovate. We can create the jobs and industries of the future by doing what America does best – investing in the creativity and imagination of our people. To win the future, we must out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world. We also must take responsibility for our deficit, by investing in what makes America stronger, cutting what doesn’t, and reforming how our government operates so it focuses on promoting our economic growth and preparing for the challenges of a new century. President Obama’s Strategy for American Innovation seeks to harness the inherent ingenuity of the American people to ensure that our economic growth is rapid, broad-based, and sustained. Innovation-based economic growth will bring greater income, higher quality jobs, and improved health and quality of life to all U.S. citizens. The Strategy for American Innovation provides a multifaceted, commonsense, and sustained approach to ensuring America’s future prosperity.”

  • Executive Summary | Introduction | Invest in Building Blocks | Market-Based Innovation | Catalyze Breakthroughs | Appendix A | Appendix B | Appendix C
  • New physical activity guidance can help reduce risk of breast, colon cancers

    News release: “Undertaking 150 minutes a week of moderate physical activity can reduce the risk of breast and colon cancers, according to the new Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health released by WHO today on World Cancer Day. In 2008, almost 460,000 females died from breast cancer, while close to 610,000 males and females… Continue Reading

    New GAO Reports: Medicaid and CHIP, Electronic Records Archive

    Medicaid and CHIP: Given the Association between Parent and Child Insurance Status, New Expansions May Benefit Families, GAO-11-264, February 04, 2011 Electronic Records Archive: National Archives Needs to Strengthen Its Capacity to Use Earned Value Techniques to Manage and Oversee Development, GAO-11-86, January 13, 2011: “Since 2001, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has… Continue Reading

    Program Provides Provide Weekend Nourishment to School Children on Federal Free and Reduced Meal Program

    “Blessings in a Backpack is a results-oriented program. This unique program is designed to feed elementary school children whose families qualify for the federal free and reduced meal program, and may not have any or enough food on the weekends. Better test scores, improved reading skills, positive behavior, improved health and increased attendance have all… Continue Reading

    BLS: Employment Situation Summary, January 2011

    News release: “The unemployment rate fell by 0.4 percentage point to 9.0 percent in January, while nonfarm payroll employment changed little (+36,000), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment rose in manufacturing and in retail trade but was down in construction and in transportation and warehousing. Employment in most other major industries changed… Continue Reading

    Report: $1 Trillion in Profits and Still at the Trough: Oil and Gas in the 21st Century

    $1 Trillion in Profits and Still at the Trough: Oil and Gas in the 21st Century, February 3, 2011. House Committee on Natural Resources, Democratic Staff. U.S. gasoline prices have increased 44 cents per gallon in the last year to an average price of $3.10 per gallon, with some parts of the country paying much… Continue Reading