Megan Slack

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Megan Slack

Associate Director of Digital Content for the Office of Digital Strategy

Megan Slack is the Associate Director of Digital Content in the Office of Digital Strategy. She joined the White House from the online communications team at the Center for American Progress. She also served as deputy finance director and scheduler on a congressional race in Houston, Texas during the 2008 election cycle, and interned at The Huffington Post. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from American University in Washington, D.C., where she served as editor in chief of the school newspaper, The Eagle.

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Economy

White House White Board: President Obama's Plan for Refinancing

April 18, 2012 at 12:35 PM EDT

Brian Deese explains President Obama's plan to help more homeowners refinance their mortgages at today's historically low interest rates in the latest White House White Board.

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Economy

Everything You Need to Know: Helping Responsible Homeowners Refinance

April 18, 2012 at 11:45 AM EDT

Learn more about the President's plan to help our housing market and how it will help more homeowners save money on their mortgages each month by refinancing at today's historically low interest rates.

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Economy

Get Your 2011 Federal Taxpayer Receipt Now

April 17, 2012 at 1:02 PM EDT

Want to understand how and where your federal tax dollars are being spent? Enter a few pieces of information about what you paid into the Federal Taypayer Receipt and learn how much of your money went to different national priorities such as education, health care and veterans benefits.

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Buffett Rule

The Buffett Rule Would Make Sure Everyone Plays by the Same Rules

April 16, 2012 at 2:40 PM EDT

While the wealthiest Americans earn near-record shares of the national income, their average tax rates have plummeted. The Buffett Rule would eliminate special tax breaks and loopholes that allow the best-off to pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than middle class families pay.

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Buffett Rule

President Obama Makes the Case for the Buffett Rule

April 10, 2012 at 7:48 PM EDT

The President believes we should build an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. That’s why he proposed the Buffett Rule, which will make sure people making more than $1 million pay at least the same percentage of their income as middle-class families do.

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Buffett Rule

The Buffett Rule Asks the Wealthiest to Pay Their Fair Share

April 10, 2012 at 2:00 PM EDT

The average tax rate paid by the very highest-income Americans has fallen to nearly the lowest rate in over 50 years, and many pay a lower tax rate than millions of middle-class families. President Obama has proposed the Buffett Rule, which would make sure that no household making more than $1 million pays a smaller share of their income in taxes that middle-class families pay

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Photo Gallery: The 2012 White House Easter Egg Roll

April 9, 2012 at 7:10 PM EDT

Images from a day of music, food, fun, and Easter egg rolling at the 2012 White House Easter Egg Roll.

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Foreign Policy

President Obama Meets with President Rousseff of Brazil

April 9, 2012 at 6:39 PM EDT

Leaders discuss the deepening relationship between the two largest economies in the Western Hemisphere.

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Inside the White House

The 2012 White House Easter Egg Roll

April 9, 2012 at 9:30 AM EDT

Check out all the fun happening on the South Lawn for this year's Easter Egg Roll.

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Weekly Address: Easter and Passover Greetings from President Obama

April 7, 2012 at 5:30 AM EDT

In his weekly address, President Obama offers his warmest greetings to all who are celebrating Easter and Passover this weekend, and reflects on the common thread of humanity that binds us all together.

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