Social Impact Bonds is a promising new financing model that could potentially improve results, overcome barriers to social innovation, and encourage investment in cost-saving preventive services.
President Obama unveiled an ambitious blueprint to use $18 billion in federal funds to get 98 percent of the nation connected to the Internet on smartphones and tablet computers in five years.
President Obama is joined by former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to announce the formation of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund to help the Haitian people after the devastating January 12th earthquake.
President Barack Obama hosted a jobs summit recently, a day before the Labor Department reports new job numbers. Obama invited academics, business and labor leaders to a White House seminar to hear their suggestions on what might spark them to begin hiring again.
