Today at 2:00 p.m. EDT, the president will answer questions via Twitter during the first-ever White House Twitter Townhall. You can follow @Townhall to participate or go to this site that the White House has created for the event. You can also follow the conversation using the hashtag #AskObama.
The Internet has been buzzing about this event for days, so don’t miss out. This is your chance to ask the White House hard questions about immigration, education, and the economy:
Will the president heed the call of Representative Luis Gutierrez (D–IL) to stop the deportation of #DREAM students?
Will the White House step up its pressure to get the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorized this year? The last time it was reauthorized was 2002 and it is supposed to happen every five years.
There is still a home foreclosure crisis going on in America, and it disproportionately affects people of color. What is the White House doing to address this ongoing problem?
Job quality has declined over the last few years, as U.S. employers have lowered wages in response to an ever-stiffening global marketplace. Employers have decreased the standard benefits offered to workers and, in some cases, willfully violated labor laws and health and safety standards. Many of the negatively affected workers are hard-working Latinos. What does the president plan to do to increase the political will needed to improve standards in the low-wage job market?
These are just some of the questions that NCLR has for the White House. What are your questions?