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Maureen Tracey-Mooney is Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of the Vice President, where she focuses on early childhood and K-12 education, workplace and public safety, the auto industry and other issues. Maureen previously worked for the White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers, based at the Department of Labor, where she supported communities in Ohio and worked on the interagency team that established the $773 million trust for the environmental cleanup of former GM properties. During the transition she worked on the Department of Labor’s agency review team. Maureen joined the Obama campaign’s policy staff in March of 2007 and went on to work on the field staff, ending the campaign as a Regional Field Director in Cincinnati, of which she is a proud native. Maureen is a Cincinnati Bengals fan and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano were joined by leaders from across the country to discuss the development of high-quality emergency management plans to make our schools, institutions of higher education, and houses of worship safer from violence.
In the two weeks since President Obama released his plan for reducing gun violence, the President and Vice President have kept on pushing for Congress to take common-sense steps to protect our children and our communities by reducing gun violence.
Vice President Joe Biden speaks to graduating seniors, parents, and teachers at Maury High School in Norfolk, Virginia about the importance of a college education, and the work the Administration is doing to to make it affordable at a time when more and more families are facing difficult choices about how or even if they can finance a college education for their children.
Vice President Biden visits a school in Land O'Lakes, Florida, to speak to a group of parents and teachers about how the American Jobs Act will help keep hundreds of thousands of teachers in classrooms across the country.
Education reform is only possible with the cooperation of both teachers' unions and administrators. Read about how Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is helping to bring both sides together.
Proposed new rules for enforcing mine safety will help protect the health and safety of Americans with one of our nation's most dangerous jobs.
In the wake of the historic rescue of miners in Chile, Maureen Tracey-Mooney with the Office of the Vice President, discusses efforts to tackle an even more widespread danger to miners.
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