Policy • History • ImpactPromise Tracker
Promise Tracker groups this presidency term's records by status. The default view prioritizes promises with direct or meaningful downstream Black-community impact while keeping repeated administrations distinct.
This page covers the 2009-2017 term for Barack Obama.
Low-relevance and overlapping records remain accessible through Show All.
Delivered
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In Progress
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Partial
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Failed
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Blocked
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5 records in this status
Criminal Justice
Reduce the federal crack-powder sentencing disparityTracked as delivered because the Fair Sentencing Act reduced the statutory disparity from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1, producing a clear legal change even though it did not eliminate the gap entirely.
Health Care
Ban pre-existing-condition exclusionsThe Affordable Care Act barred insurers from denying or pricing coverage based on pre-existing conditions in major parts of the insurance market.
Health Care / Children
Expand children's health insurance coverageObama signed CHIP expansion legislation early in his presidency, broadening coverage for children.
Workers / Gender Equity
Restore the ability to challenge pay discriminationObama backed and signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, making it easier to challenge ongoing pay discrimination.
Consumer Protection / Financial Regulation
Enact a credit card bill of rightsObama signed the Credit CARD Act, which imposed tighter limits on a range of credit card pricing and billing practices.
0 records in this status
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2 records in this status
Taxes / Economy
Roll back Bush tax cuts for upper-income householdsHigher rates were restored for top earners, but the result came through a broader fiscal-cliff compromise rather than the original clean repeal framing.
Taxes / Economy
Enact a worker tax creditObama enacted worker tax relief, but the ultimate delivery was more temporary and politically altered than the original campaign framing.
1 record in this status
Housing / Foreclosure
Launch a homeowner stabilization and foreclosure-prevention effortObama launched a much larger foreclosure-relief effort than the campaign proposal, but the homeowner-stabilization effort fell far short of its stated goals and did not prevent broad housing loss.
1 record in this status
Voting Rights / Civil Rights
Ban deceptive election practices and voter intimidationObama supported stronger federal penalties and corrective mechanisms for deceptive election practices, but the core legislation never became law.