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This afternoon, President Obama traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina for a special town hall event, co-hosted with leading women's sites BlogHer and She Knows. During the conversation, the President talked with working women about some of the issues they care the most about -- such as paying for child care or sending their children to college.
Dianna Jolly, a Charlotte resident who introduced the President at today's event, wrote him a few months ago explaining how it's growing more difficult for her just to get by. "As part of the middle class," she said, "I know how it feels to work hard every day, and -- even with a college education and a full-time job -- find it harder and harder to make ends meet."
In his remarks and answers at today's town hall, the President made clear that more hardworking and middle-class Americans deserve the chance to get ahead, and explained the steps that he's taking to fix the problem.
President Obama also highlighted the fact that it's Tax Day, and explained how his proposed budget would cut taxes for 44 million working and middle-class Americans, including:
The GOP is "pushing a new $270 billion tax cut for the top fraction of the top 1%" —Obama #TaxDay #ObamaTownHall pic.twitter.com/idpKeoYCr4
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 15, 2015
-- President Barack Obama
And in case you don't feel like watching the whole event, here are some of the highlights:
On expanding access to child care:
Watch President Obama respond to a question from a single mom about expanding access to child care. #ObamaTownHall http://t.co/oNRfnO4wzA
— White House Live (@WHLive) April 15, 2015
On equal pay:
“The reason we haven’t gotten it done is because Republicans in Congress have blocked it.” —Obama on #EqualPay http://t.co/sFutFX0MsE
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 15, 2015
On cutting taxes for middle-class families:
President Obama on how his tax plan would cut taxes for 44 million middle-class families. #ObamaTownHall #TaxDay http://t.co/KT5RzeTMAI
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 15, 2015
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