A diverse crowd of people packed the Bruce Guadalupe Middle School on Milwaukee’s South Side to hear President Obama’s congratulatory speech Thursday afternoon.
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Obama’s oldest daughter Malia is expected to go to university this autumn. She will be a Sophomore at the exclusive Sidwell Friends School in Washington at the end of her father’s term.
While 80 percent of this group live with incomes below the Federal Poverty Level, over 70 percent have at least one full-time worker in their family.
Obama is not the first president to decide to stay in D.C. after the presidency had ended.
“We haven’t figured that out yet”, he said.
Obama met at the Milwaukee center with its executive director Ricardo Diaz, a Cuban immigrant who was part of Operation Peter Pan to evacuate children from Cuba in the early 1960s, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The day before, the House failed to override Obama’s veto of a Ryan-supported bill to repeal most of the law.
“Hawaii is home for me”, he said, and he also mentioned Chicago, where his wife grew up.
“I spent nearly 30 years in Chicago”, he said, noting it was also the hometown of first lady Michelle Obama.
“While the Obama’s haven’t chosen a final destination, NY and California have been floated as possibilities”, says The Hill.
A woman explains healthcare benefits at a Covered California event which marks the opening of the state’s Affordable Healthcare Act, commonly known as Obamacare, health insurance marketplace in Los Angeles, California, October 1, 2013.
Obama visited Milwaukee to congratulate local leaders for winning a national health insurance enrollment contest.
More than 38,000 Milwaukee-area residents newly signed up for health coverage. “Tough”, he said to an audience question in Wisconsin.
“We are going to keep working to make health care even better”, Obama said.
President Barack Obama on Thursday announced that his signature health care law has signed up 20 million Americans since its inception six years ago. Put simply to not take up too much of your time if you are in fact taking the time to read this: I would not be alive without access to care I received due to your law. That’s the kind of work that I really love to do’.
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Obama said facts “do not comport with conviction” for Republicans who have argued for repealing the act.
