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May 30, 2019 · Land-based wind costs dropped 41%; the cost of rooftop solar declined by 54%; and utility-scale solar costs declined by 64%. Wind and solar power more than quadrupled under the Obama administration. It accounted for 6.5% of total large-scale generation in 2016, as compared to only 1.4% in 2008, an increase of 5.1%.
Jul 20, 2016 · The Obama Administration has challenged the world to end preventable child and maternal deaths, and since 2008 helped save the lives of 4.6 million children and 200,000 mothers. U.S. contributions to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance have helped to immunize more than 500 million kids and help prevent more than 7 million deaths.
Barack Obama, in full Barack Hussein Obama II, (born Aug. 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.), 44th president of the U.S. (2009–17). Obama graduated from Columbia University (1983) and Harvard Law School (1991), where he was the first African American to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review. He moved to Chicago, where he served as a ...
Contributors. * Donors who have made new cash contributions or formalized written commitments between January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022. + Donors who have included the Obama Foundation in their estate plans. $10,000+. $1,000,000+. Lydia & Bill Addy. Allstate. Alphawood Foundation Chicago, Fred Eychaner, Founder. Barbara & Amos Hostetter.
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he was raised by his mother and her parents. He was the first president born there and the first to be born after the country had 50 states. Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, before transferring to New York ’s Columbia University.
Nov 30, 2016 · – President Obama, Inaugural Address, January 21, 2009 America’s entrepreneurial economy is the envy of the world. Young companies account for almost 30 percent of new jobs, and as we have fought back from the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes, startups have helped the U.S. private sector create 15.5 million jobs since early 2010—the ...
Overview. Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States—becoming the first African American to serve in that office—on January 20, 2009. The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard ...
