Central Perk: Today Is Women's Equality Day

marți, 26 august 2014

Today Is Women's Equality Day

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Etched into our nation's history are the stories of women who fought for the America they knew was possible -- a country where all are truly treated equally and have access to the ballot box, regardless of gender.

It took generations of fearless women who organized and advocated to secure women's right to vote. Today, on Women's Equality Day, we honor these courageous heroes, celebrate how far we have come in the decades since, and acknowledge the work still left to be done.

Learn more about Women's Equality Day, and how the President is working to help America's women and girls succeed.

President Barack Obama bends down to listen to the daughter of a departing U.S. Secret Service agent in the Oval Office, October 28, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson created the National Park Service to protect and preserve our natural lands so people all over the world could experience America's historic beauty and heritage for years to come. Today, the National Park Service manages 401 national parks and memorials, which supported 238,000 jobs and pumped more than $26 billion into local economies last year.

In this week's address, the President highlighted the progress made toward rebuilding our economy, including the creation of nearly 10 million new private-sector jobs in the past 53 months and the rise in the number of American exports to an all-time high. That growth is in part thanks to the actions of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, an organization that creates American jobs by helping to take American businesses global.

Last week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder traveled to Ferguson, Missouri to review the Justice Department's independent investigation into the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. While there, the Attorney General met with community leaders, FBI investigators, and federal prosecutors to get detailed briefings on the status of the case.

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