An Abbreviated List
- Most Diverse Cabinet to ever serve the US Government
- High School graduation rate hit 83%, the highest ever in the history of the US
- Reversed unemployment from 10% to 4.7%
- 82 straight months of private sector job growth; the longest streak in the history of this country in which there has been consecutive months of job growth and not job losses
- We put a rover on mars
- 1st drop in prison population (in decades)
- Homelessness among veterans dropped 50%
- Sixteen countries in the world relinquished their highly-enriched uranium, reducing the risk of terrorists or extremist stealing the material
- For the 1st time ever, convened biannual nuclear security summits to convince nations to get rid of loose nuclear material
- Credit card companies cannot raise the interest rates without notification
- If you work for a federal contractor, you cannot be fired for being LGBT
- Our countries dependence on foreign oil plummeted
- Stopped Bin Laden, and now the Bin Laden’s Bookshelf (published by the CIA) allows public access to images and documents that kept by Bin Laden
- First Chief Technology Office
- Syria got rid of all chemical weapons
- US banned torture
- US embassy opened in Cuba
- Over turned the ban on scientific research on stem cells
- Increased the resources for mental care by the Veterans Administration by millions of dollars
- 1st administration ever to voluntarily to release the list of all visitors to the white house
- Enabled marriage equality, no discrimination based on sexual preference
- FDA began regulation of tobacco, companies must now disclose what is placed in tobacco products
- Federal Deficit declined from a high of 10% of GDP to 3%
- Banks face stress tests so that the banking industry does not cause another collapse of the financial markets
- Banks can no longer use deposits to “play the market” by investing in stocks, bonds, etc.
- Stopped a Muslim registry created by the Bush administration after 9/11
- Enforced regulation and the law against for profit colleges that failed to deliver the promised educational training and shut down the accreditor which falsely identified these companies as colleges
- Solitary confinement was banned for juveniles serving time in federal prison
- Secret oversees US prisons were shut down
- Allowed families to be present when deceased US service members remains were flown home
- stopped the prior secrecy order which prevented photos and details from being shared when those deceased service members arrived
- The don’t ask don’t tell law was repealed
- The ban against transgender service personal was repealed
- All combat positions were opened to women
- Saved Medicare for many years to come by slowing the growth of healthcare cost
- Saved the US Auto Industry – along with millions of American Jobs
- Millions of federal dollars that private banks used loan for higher education are now used for student Pell grants
- You cannot be denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition
- You cannot be charged more for health insurance because you are a woman
- The health insurance industry can no longer place a lifetime cap on the amount of money that you may need for health care
- Twenty million Americans now receive health insurance that did not qualify or could not afford insurance before Obama became president
- For the first time the number of uninsured persons dropped and more than 90% of citizens have health insurance
- Appointed a record number of women and non-white judges