change.gov - 11/24/2008
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President-elect Barack Obama today announced a bold initiative to save or create 2.5 million jobs in the next two years.
In his weekly address, President-elect Obama announced that he has directed his economic team to formulate an Economic Recovery Plan -- a two-year, nationwide initiative ...
msnbc.msn.com - 11/22/2008
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msnbc.msn.com —
President-elect Barack Obama said on Saturday that he
was crafting a two-year stimulus plan to revive the...
troubled economy, warning that swift action was needed to prevent a deep slump.
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Obama: 'Millions of jobs' in danger next year
washingtonpost.com - 11/24/2008
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Plan Aims to Create or Save 2.5 Million
Positions by 2011 By Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff...
Writer Sunday, November 23, 2008; A01 President-elect Barack Obama is developing a plan to create or preserve 2.5 million jobs over the next two years ...
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Obama Sets Expansive Goal for Jobs
jsonline.com - 11/26/2008
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Posted: Sep. 10, 2008 A $100 billion U.S.
investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy could add...
more than 37,000 jobs to Wisconsin over two years, a new report says. The study, by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of ...
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‘Green’ projects create jobs, report says
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Obama Gets in a Few Pre-Inaugural Words on Rebuilding
techPresident —
... President-elect Barack Obama is out with the second of his weekly bite-sized video messages to the American public, billed as "Your Weekly Address" and posted on both ...
It's Not About People, It's About Policy
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... not personnel."
Because what's most important now is to solve the myriad of crises in the economy, environment and health care, and to make a clean break with neocon foreign policy, and we in the grassroots need to keep our eye on the ball.
This week's developments further prove the point.
While Obama turned to some economic officials, most notably Larry Summers, who are not known for liberal policymaking, he did so while announcing that he intends to immediately sign legislation launching a: ...
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news.yahoo.com 11/22/2008 — AP - President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday outlined his plan to create 2.5 million jobs in coming years to rebuild roads and bridges and modernize schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars.
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online.wsj.com 11/7/2008 — Obama and his energy advisers are making the case that a clean-energy system is just what's needed to help revive the economy.
Obama's economic dream team —
CNN Political Ticker 11/24/2008
Timothy Geithner is a member of the Obama economic dream team to be officially announced Monday.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) – President-elect Barack Obama will hold a press conference Monday to announce key members of his administration's ...
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