Checking Obama's financial promises and results for the state of the union

By Jana Kasperkevic. The president has struggled to realise state of the union promises regarding wages, debt, housing and other issues. Tonight Barack Obama will deliver his sixth state of the union address as president, with an expected focus on jobs, inequality and middle class mobility. Obama has tackled those subjects before, to mixed results. In 2011, he said that America doesn't measure progress just by the state of corporate profits or the stock market, but rather "by the success of our people" and the quality of life their jobs had to offer. In November, he gave his clearest and longest economic speech on inequality, inspired in part by Pope Francis. More...