{"id":84245,"date":"2015-01-21T06:31:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T06:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=84245"},"modified":"2015-01-21T06:31:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T06:31:41","slug":"obama-demands-spread-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/01\/obama-demands-spread-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama demands spread of wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"
US President Barack Obama has declared an end to the financial crisis and pledged economic policies to benefit all Americans, in his annual State of the Union address to Congress.<\/p>\n
In a speech devised to appeal to working families, Mr Obama outlined his strategy for “middle-class economics”.<\/p>\n
“It’s now up to us to choose who we want to be over the next 15 years,” he said.<\/p>\n
But the plans are unlikely to make it past a Republican-controlled Congress.<\/p>\n
In a speech which he described as more focused on values than policies, Mr Obama declared America had turned a page after the worst recession since the Depression.<\/p>\n
The president said he planned to build on this growth by providing working families with help in the form of sick and maternity leave and affordable childcare.<\/p>\n
“Middle-class economics works. Expanding opportunity works. And these politics will continue to work, as long as politics don’t get in the way,” he said.<\/p>\n
He also pledged that Congress should pass a law to give women the same wages as men for doing the same job. “It’s 2015. It’s time,” he said.<\/p>\n