JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — President Barack Obama’s latest jobs plan calls for $130 billion in aid to state and local governments, providing either a welcome infusion of cash for those struggling with budget gaps, government layoffs and crumbling roads or merely a temporary patch for budget holes that are likely to remain long after the [...]
WASHINGTON — In a sharp challenge to the GOP, President Barack Obama proposed paying for his costly new jobs plan Monday with tax hikes that Republicans have already emphatically rejected. The reception to his new proposal was no more welcoming, setting the stage for a likely new fight with Congress. Flanked at the White House [...]
President Barack Obama formally released his administration’s plan to boost job creation on Monday. “This is the bill that Congress needs to pass,” the president said. “No games. No politics. No delays.” The Obama administration announced on Monday a series of tax policy changes that officials say will pay for the costs of the president’s job [...]
WASHINGTON — The White House continued on Friday to insist that it wants the President’s new jobs bill to be considered as a single piece of legislation when it is formally introduced next week. But with Republican lawmakers hinting that they would rather consider the components of the president’s plan individually, it’s not entirely clear whether [...]
While men lost more jobs in the recession than women, women have been slower to recover, losing nearly 300,000 jobs since the economic “recovery” began in 2009. Some women’s organizations were concerned that President Obama’s jobs plan was going to focus on boosting male-dominated industries, such as construction and manufacturing, to the exclusion of the female [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s jobs speech on Thursday night was infused with the passion that many who campaigned for him in 2008 had been waiting to hear again. Yet despite his combative rhetoric, the president largely avoided the “green jobs” talk formerly at the center of his economic message. “From an energy policy perspective [...]
WASHINGTON –The president’s reported $300 billion plan to resuscitate a stagnant job market remains in a fairly vague form, one day before the president is set to discuss it in an address to a joint session of Congress. But sources outside of the administration are hopeful about one component: money that would be spent to [...]
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday that his Republican colleagues “ought to be respectful” and attend President Barack Obama’s address to Congress later in the evening, despite the vows of some in his party to boycott the speech for political reasons. “The president is coming at our invitation,” Boehner told reporters. “We [...]
Even though Americans are expected to be doing a lot more holiday shopping this year, don’t expect that to do much to alleviate the pain of a struggling jobs market. That’s because while sales are predicted to rise in November and December, and back-to-school sales in August — often seen as a leading indicator for the [...]
WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Congress on Tuesday offered their support for a plan the White House is considering to help the 6 million long-term jobless get back to work. The Obama administration has suggested it is looking at a program called Georgia Works, which allows businesses to train jobless participants for eight weeks without [...]
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