Meet President-elect Barack Obama

Check out the AFL-CIO's dynamic "Meet Barack Obama" guide, offering video clips and details on the president-elect's positions on the following working familiy issues:

• Economy
• Good jobs
• Health Care
• Trade
• Workers' Rights
• Retirement Security

Here's some quick facts about our next president:

• Born Aug. 4, 1961, raised by a working mother and his grandparents

• Community organizer in Chicago area hurt by closing of steel mills.

• First African American president of Harvard Law Review.

• As Illinois state senator, championed access to health care, early childhood education.
• Elected to U.S. Senate by an overwhelming margin in 2004.

• Earned a 98 percent lifetime rating as a U.S. senator from the AFL-CIO.

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