{"id":244,"date":"2017-11-11T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T18:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoodresearch.org\/TTR\/?p=244"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:59:38","slug":"what-barack-obama-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoodresearch.org\/TTR\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"What Barack Obama Accomplished"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Abbreviated List<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Most Diverse Cabinet to ever serve the US Government<\/li>
  2. High School graduation rate hit 83%, the highest ever in the history of the US<\/li>
  3. Reversed unemployment from 10% to 4.7%<\/li>
  4. 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<\/li>
  5. We put a rover on mars<\/li>
  6. 1st<\/sup> drop in prison population (in decades)<\/li>
  7. Homelessness among veterans dropped 50%<\/li>
  8. Sixteen countries in the world relinquished their highly-enriched uranium, reducing the risk of terrorists or extremist stealing the material<\/li>
  9. For the 1st<\/sup> time ever, convened biannual nuclear security summits to convince nations to get rid of loose nuclear material<\/li>
  10. Credit card companies cannot raise the interest rates without notification<\/li>
  11. If you work for a federal contractor, you cannot be fired for being LGBT<\/li>
  12. Our countries dependence on foreign oil plummeted<\/li>
  13. Stopped Bin Laden, and now the Bin Laden\u2019s Bookshelf (published by the CIA) allows public access to images and documents that kept by Bin Laden<\/li>
  14. First Chief Technology Office<\/li>
  15. Syria got rid of all chemical weapons<\/li>
  16. US banned torture<\/li>
  17. US embassy opened in Cuba<\/li>
  18. Over turned the ban on scientific research on stem cells<\/li>
  19. Increased the resources for mental care by the Veterans Administration by millions of dollars<\/li>
  20. 1st<\/sup> administration ever to voluntarily to release the list of all visitors to the white house<\/li>
  21. Enabled marriage equality, no discrimination based on sexual preference<\/li>
  22. FDA began regulation of tobacco, companies must now disclose what is placed in tobacco products<\/li>
  23. Federal Deficit declined from a high of 10% of GDP to 3%<\/li>
  24. Banks face stress tests so that the banking industry does not cause another collapse of the financial markets<\/li>
  25. Banks can no longer use deposits to \u201cplay the market\u201d by investing in stocks, bonds, etc.<\/li>
  26. Stopped a Muslim registry created by the Bush administration after 9\/11<\/li>
  27. 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<\/li>
  28. Solitary confinement was banned for juveniles serving time in federal prison<\/li>
  29. Secret oversees US prisons were shut down<\/li>
  30. Allowed families to be present when deceased US service members remains were flown home<\/li>
  31.  stopped the prior secrecy order which prevented photos and details from being shared when those deceased service members arrived<\/li>
  32. The don\u2019t ask don\u2019t tell law was repealed<\/li>
  33. The ban against transgender service personal was repealed<\/li>
  34. All combat positions were opened to women<\/li>
  35. Saved Medicare for many years to come by slowing the growth of healthcare cost<\/li>
  36. Saved the US Auto Industry \u2013 along with millions of American Jobs<\/li>
  37. Millions of federal dollars that private banks used loan for higher education are now used for student Pell grants<\/li>
  38. You cannot be denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition<\/li>
  39. You cannot be charged more for health insurance because you are a woman<\/li>
  40. The health insurance industry can no longer place a lifetime cap on the amount of money that you may need for health care<\/li>
  41. Twenty million Americans now receive health insurance that did not qualify or could not afford insurance before Obama became president<\/li>
  42. For the first time the number of uninsured persons dropped and more than 90% of citizens have health insurance<\/li>
  43. Appointed a record number of women and non-white judges<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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