Now, worried health officials and school administrators are pushing policies they hope will halt the increase.
The president pushes forward an agenda and policies which divide us.
Conservatives could try to push policies aimed at helping girls, and liberals could do the same with boys.
He says they were to blame for pushing policies that created the housing bubble.
In California, by contrast, the state continued to push policies designed to encourage conservation, especially of electricity.
Despite the energy and climate change ministers continuing to push forward big policies, the environment department remains feeble.
This is a president who has strongly pushed numerous policies that appealed to a lot of different groups - including conservatives.
For many years, it published the newsletter Just Economics, which pushed progressive economic policies.
Last year, Congress was still pushing policies aimed at keeping sick thrifts open.
We must also push economic and social policies to raise the purchasing power of low-income families.