U.S. President Barack Obama receives a hug from a student after speaking during a visit to Boise State University in Idaho January 21, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - A day after delivering a defiant State of the Union speech to the Republican-led U.S. Congress, President Barack Obama headed to the conservative heartland on Wednesday to promote his plans for bolstering the middle class.
Obama left Washington for a two-day trip to Idaho and Kansas to push his message that everyone should stand to gain from an economy that has all but recovered from years in the doldrums.
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