The White House announced on Saturday that President Barack Obama will spend most of the upcoming week previewing more proposals he’ll outline in his State of the Union Address.
This weekend, the President discussed the economic gains made in 2014, the strongest year for job growth since the 1990s.
President Obama says, “Over a 58-month streak, our businesses have created 11.2 million new jobs. After a decade of decline, American manufacturing is in its best stretch of job growth since the ’90s. America is now the world’s number one producer of oil and gas, helping to save drivers about a buck-ten a gallon at the pump over this time last year. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, about 10 million Americans have gained health insurance in the past year alone. We have cut our deficits by about two-thirds. And after 13 long years, our war in Afghanistan has come to a responsible end, and more of our brave troops have come home.”