14-03-30 Hi, everybody. In this year of action, I'm doing everything I can, with or without Congress, to expand opportunity for more Americans. This week, I ordered a review of our nation's overtime rules, to give more Americans the chance to earn the overti...

14-02-21 Hi, everybody. In my State of the Union Address, I talked about the idea of opportunity for all. Opportunity is the idea at the heart of this country-that no matter who you are or how you started out, with hard work and responsibility, you can get a...

13-08-25 Hi, everybody. This week, I went down to an Amazon warehouse in Tennessee to talk more about what we need to do to secure a better bargain for the middle class, to make sure that anyone who works hard can get ahead in the 21st century economy. Over...

13-08-16 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...

13-08-11 Hi everybody. On Wednesday, I spoke about what we need to do as a country to build a better bargain for the middle class, to make sure everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead in the 21st century economy. You see, over the past four and a h...

13-05-24 Hi, everybody. Over the past few months, I've laid out a series of commonsense ideas to reignite（再次点燃） the true engine of our economic growth: a rising, thriving middle class. The way I see it, there are three areas where we need to focus. One...

13-04-27 The squeezed middle refer to people on average incomes who have less money than previously to buy the things they need because rising costs have not been matched by an increase in pay. The squeezed middle指收入一般的人群因为生活成本提高而收入未曾增...

13-01-10 Hello Everybody. For the past couple months, I've been working with people in both partieswith the help of business leaders and ordinary Americansto come together around a plan to grow the economy and shrink our deficits. It's a balanced planone tha...

12-12-31 Hi, everybody. I'm here on the factory floor of a business in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, where folks are working around the clock making toys to keep up with the Christmas rush. And I came here because, back in Washington, the clock is ticking on some...

12-09-12 Dubbed the Squeezed Middle by the Labour Party, millions of low- or middle-income families have seen their standard of living eroded by a toxic mix of high inflation, stagnating pay and government austerity measures. 英国数百万中低收入家庭的生活水平...