This document discusses Barack Obama's efforts to reduce poverty as President. It notes that Obama grew up in a low-income community and worked as a community organizer to establish job training programs for the unemployed. As President, Obama passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to provide billions of dollars to programs that help the poor, such as food stamps, job training, homelessness prevention, and weatherization assistance. The document also outlines Obama's goals of creating economic opportunities for Americans and strengthening families through responsible fatherhood initiatives and support for mothers struggling with poverty.

1. Barack Obama
The one who is
determined to
reduce POVERTY
Done By: 94th Coy
Bryan Koh
Gerald Chow
Chong Song Kai
Lam Zhen Yuan

2. Current statistics on people who are
in poverty
1. Almost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than
$2.50 a day.
2. At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.
3. More than 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where
income differentials are widening.
4. The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of
global income. The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world
income.
5. According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. And
they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed
from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak
in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.”

4. About Barack Obama
1)44th president of USA
2) son of a white American mother and a
black Kenyan father
3) Was determined to improve the lives of
people.

5. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
• Included broad investments to alleviate the poverty made
worse by economic crisis.
• To fight hunger, the Act includes a $20 billion increase for the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly
known as Food Stamps, as well as funding for food banks and
the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,
Infants, and Children (WIC);
• The Act also provides for $2 billion in new Neighborhood
Stabilization Funds to help maintain ailing neighborhoods and
$1.5 billion in Homelessness Prevention Funds to keep people
in their homes or rapidly rehouse them;
• The Act increases funding for the Community Services Block
Grant by $1 billion;

6. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
• The Act increases job training funds for those who need them most, with
$3.95 billion in additional funding for the Workforce Investment system,
which will support green job training, summer jobs for young people, and
other opportunities;
• The Act provides increased income support, including an increase of $25
per week for Unemployment Insurance recipients and incentives for states
to expand unemployment insurance eligibility, as well as an extra $250
payment to Social Security and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries
and new resources for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
program; and,
• The Act provides tax breaks to working families through the Make Work Pay
and Child Tax Credits. These changes will reduce the marriage penalty and
provide a larger credit for families with three or more children
• The Act increases the Weatherization Assistance Program by $5 billion to
help low income families save on their energy bills by making their homes
more energy efficient;

7. Guilding Priciples
President Obama has been a lifelong advocate for the
poor. As a young college graduate, he rejected the high
salaries of corporate America and moved to the South
Side of Chicago to work as a community organizer. As
an organizer, President Obama worked with Chicago
residents, churches, and local government to set up job
training programs for the unemployed and after-school
programs for kids. As President, his life experiences
inform his efforts to create a path of opportunity for all
hard-working Americans to enter the middle class.
President Obama will lead a new federal approach to
revitalize communities stricken by the economic crisis
as well as communities that were hurting before it
began.

8. Expand Opportunity
Too many Americans live without hope for a better
future or access to good, family-supporting jobs.
President Obama is committed to creating the
opportunity for all Americans to grab the first rung
on the ladder to the middle class. That includes
investing in strategies to make work pay, expanding
access to affordable housing, and helping low-income
Americans build the job skills to succeed in
the workforce.

9. Contributions
• The economic crisis has hit low-income
American families particularly hard. President
Obama will help vulnerable Americans
through this crisis by making sure they have
the resources they need to put food on the
table and keep a roof over their heads, while
also extending tax credits to low-wage
workers.

10. Strengthen Families
• President Obama was raised by a single parent, and knows
the difficulties that young people face when their fathers are
absent. He is committed to responsible fatherhood, by
supporting fathers who stand by their families and
encouraging young men to work towards good jobs in
promising career pathways.
• Mothers who are struggling in poverty also need support to
raise healthy children. The President has proposed an historic
investment in providing home visits to low-income, first-time
parents by trained professionals. The President and First Lady
are also committed to ensuring that children have nutritious
meals to eat at home and at school, so that they grow up
healthy and strong.