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Turning around unemployment
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The high unemployment numbers released this week rattled the country, as anxiety about the deepening recession hit home to more and more American families.
President-elect Obama’s Weekly Address responds with an urgent call for immediate and dramatic action to get our economy working again.
The President-elect’s proposed plan won’t just create jobs—it will also provide help for those who have lost theirs with bi-partisan measures to families and states hit hardest by this recession.
Two members of the Transition economic team—Dr. Christina Romer and Dr. Jared Bernstein—have analyzed the plan and project that it will ...
PEBO Provides Stimulus Details on Where and When the Jobs Will Be
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Previous | Main PEBO Provides Stimulus Details on Where and When the Jobs Will Be January 10, 2009 9:41 AM Twenty-six thousand jobs in mining. Eleven thousand jobs in utilities. 408,000 in manufacturing. And 244,000 jobs in government. In his weekly radio/Youtube address released this morning, President-elect Obama presents a report on the stimulus package detailing hw many jobs would be created or saved by the plan, and where exactly the jobs would be. The current economic crisis, the President-elect says, "is an extraordinary challenge, which is why I’ve taken the extraordinary step of working – even before I take office – with my economic team and ...
Obama lays out job projections expected from stimulus
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In today's radio address, the president-elect released a new report, which details how many and what kinds of jobs will be created by an "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan." Here's the video and excerpts are below: Yesterday, we learned that the unemployment rate hit 7.2% and is only projected to go higher. Job creation is key to the economy turning around: We’ll create nearly half a million jobs by investing in clean energy – by committing to double the production of alternative energy in the next three years, and by modernizing more than 75% of federal buildings and improving the energy ...
Obama ups the ante and loses all credibility on bailout boondoggle
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In this week’s edition of what Obama use to call “Your Weekly Address from the President-elect” [someone finally convinced Obama how patronizingly presumptuous that title sounds because they have gone back and renamed all the videos], Obama announced yet another increase in the number of jobs he hopes his $800 billion bailout will “create or save.”
Obama just can’t seem to find a goal that he likes makes sense justifies the outrageous amount of our children’s money he intends to spend.
In the November 23, 2008-edition of “Your Weekly Address from the ...
Election Central Saturday Roundup
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Obama: My Plan Will Save Or Create 3-4 Million Jobs
In his latest Presidential YouTube Address, Barack Obama announced that he is releasing a report analyzing the impact of his proposed stimulus package, saying the package would save or create three to four million jobs:
"The jobs we create will be in businesses large and small across a wide range of industries," Obama says. "And they'll be the kind of jobs that don't just put people to work in the short term, but position our economy to lead the world in the long-term."
NYT: Economists Worried The Stimulus Isn't Big ...
Obama: Stimulus plan takes aim at 3 to 4 million jobs
Daily Kos —
In his weekly address this morning, President-Elect Barack Obama announced the release of an internal report (PDF) undertaken by his economic team that details the types and number of jobs that he anticipates will be created by the stimulus plan he proposes. Most notably, up to 3 to 4 million jobs will be saved or created by 2010, the president-elect claims, with 90 percent of those new jobs landing in the private sector. In particular, he emphasized the creation of infrastructure and clean energy jobs that could not be outsourced: We’ll create nearly half a million jobs by investing in clean energy – by committing to double the ...
Upping the ante
Political Animal —
UPPING THE ANTE.... It wasn't too long ago that Barack Obama was talking about an economic rescue plan that would save or create 1 million jobs. By Thanksgiving, the number was in upwards of 2.5 million. Shortly before Christmas, the target was 3 million. As of this morning, it's a plan that may create as many as 4 million ...
Obama: Did I say I’d save three million jobs? Make it four million
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Obama: Did I say I’d save three million jobs? Make it four million posted at 1:30 pm on January 10, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Assuming a $775 billion stimulus, the new estimate means we’ll be paying $193,750 for each job “saved or created” instead of just north of $258,000. Come 2010, of course, we’ll be told that he actually saved many more jobs than even that, so who knows? A little fine tuning of the numbers — they are, after all, “subject to significant margins of error” — and we might get down to under $100,000 per job before all’s said and done. Assuming there are no other stimulus ...
The Obama Stimulus Plan
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Here is an outline of the Obama Plan (not much detail): The Job Impact of American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan Click on graph for larger image in new window.
President-Elect Obama's Weekly Radio Address, January 10, 2008
Seeing the Forest —
We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike any we have seen in our lifetime. We learned yesterday that in the past month alone, we lost more than half a million jobs – a total of nearly 2.6 million in the year 2008. Another 3.4 million Americans who want and need full-time work have had to settle for part-time jobs. And families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear. These numbers are a stark reminder that we simply cannot continue on our current path. If nothing is done, economists from across the spectrum tell us that this recession could linger for years and the unemployment rate could reach ...
Obama Now Promising To “Create Or Save” 4 Million Jobs
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This is up from the 3 million new/saved jobs promised to mandate just a couple of weeks ago, and way up from the 2.5 million he promised to save/create during the campaign.
In a new report, his transition team says his spending plan would create between 3.3 million and 4.1 million jobs. The report was released as Mr. Obama battles fellow Democrats in Congress over the size and details of the bill, which the president-elect wants to total slightly less than $800 billion but which some Democratic leaders say should near $1 trillion.
The Obama report says that even ...
Obama Now Promises Stimulus Will Create More Than 3 Million Jobs
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