Published 1/9/2009
at L.A. Times - Politics
'We can't ... drag this out,' the president-elect says in the wake of December's big jump in unemployment. Obama adds that he is willing to accept 'good ideas' from Congress.
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President-elect Barack Obama seized on today's report that the economy lost 524,000 jobs in December to renew his call for quick action on a large economic stimulus in order to prevent the economic situation from worsening significantly.
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