Obama Economic Plan

Obama Economic Plan To Discourage Outsourcing, Reward 'Insourcing'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.25.2012

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WASHINGTON -- On the heels of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, senior economic advisers to the president on Wednesday shared more ...

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Obama Administration Eyes Super Committee As 'Avenue' To Move Jobs Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.27.2011

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Still searching for mechanisms to pass pieces of the president's jobs bill, senior administration officials returned on Thursday t...

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Voters With Housing Woes Giving Up On Politicians

AP | By JERI CLAUSING | Posted 12.25.2011

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MESA, Ariz. (AP) -- Like just about everyone in the Phoenix area, Jen Pollock has lost several neighbors to foreclosure and short sales. And, like hun...

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For Obama, A Disconnect Between Rhetoric & Reality

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 12.10.2011

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WASHINGTON — In President Barack Obama's sales pitch for his jobs bill, there are two versions of reality: The one in his speeches and the one a...

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White House Talks Jobs With Super Committee Members

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama pushed Congress again on Monday to bring his American Jobs Act to a vote, promising to "put as much pressure" as ...

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Obama's Jobs Plan Has Few Avenues For Passage Or A Vote, Save The Super Committee

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.09.2011

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 legislat...

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WATCH: Highlights From Obama Jobs Speech

Posted 11.08.2011

President Barack Obama outlined a new plan from his administration to boost job creation to a joint session of Congress on Thursday night. HuffPost...

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Republican Presidential Candidates React To Obama Job Speech

Posted 11.08.2011

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After President Barack Obama delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress on a new plan from his administration to create jobs, it didn't take lo...

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Obama Puts Passion Into Jobs Speech Rarely Seen In His Presidency

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 11.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Most presidents kick off their re-election campaigns with a speech on the campaign trail somewhere, or from the Oval Office. President O...

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Obama Puts Passion Into Jobs Speech Rarely Seen In His Presidency

Howard Fineman | Posted 11.08.2011

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Addresses to joint sessions of Congress are supposed to be august, stately and somber affairs, but the president turned his tonight into a raucous and lively mixture of a campaign stump speech and a college-style debate on the floor of the British House of Commons. Friends and foes alike had to wonder watching him tonight: where has that Barack Obama been? The other question, of course, is: Why did it take so long for "Give 'Em Hell, Barry" to appear? And the last question: Is it too late, either to do anything for the economy, or for his own chances?

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FULL TEXT: Obama Outlines Jobs Plan In Joint-Congressional Address

Posted 11.08.2011

President Barack Obama is delivering a speech to a joint session of Congress on Thursday night on his administration's plan to create jobs and get Ame...

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Obama Jobs Plan: $447 Billion, More Than Half In Tax Cuts, To Be Paid For By Super Committee

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Hoping to stem the tide of poor economic news and boost his falling poll numbers, President Barack Obama proposed a $447 billion jobs pl...

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LIVE UPDATS: Obama Outlines Jobs Plan

Posted 11.08.2011

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President Barack Obama is delivering a speech to a joint session of Congress on Thursday night to outline a new plan from his administration to create...

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Tough Reality For Obama As 2012 Campaign Ramps Up

Posted 11.05.2011

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By CHARLES BABINGTON, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama faces a long re-election campaign having all but given up on the e...

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Obama Hedges On Possible Geithner, Summers Departures

Roll Call | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama hedged Monday on whether he planned to keep Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and economic adviser Larry Summers on his staff...

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Obama Concedes Economy Isn't Producing Enough Jobs

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he's pleased with healthier job growth, but concedes the economy isn't producing enough jobs to accommo...

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If You Like the Recession, You'd Love "Speaker Boehner"

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

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To escape a period of long-term economic stagnation, we need a major shot of additional stimulus now. But we will never get it -- at least in the near term -- if Republicans take control of one of the houses of Congress.

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Obama Economic Team Considering New Stimulus Heavy On Tax Breaks For Business

Washington Post | Lori Montgomery | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the recovery faltering less than two months before the November congressional elections, President Obama's economic team is considering another b...

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Obama Economic Team Weighing New Wave Of Tax Cuts, Infrastructure Spending: WSJ

Wall Street Journal | DEBORAH SOLOMON and JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration is considering a range of new measures to boost economic growth, including tax cuts and a new nationwide infrastructure progr...

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Obama Approval Rating Hits New Low For Handling Economy (POLL)

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama earned his lowest marks ever on his handling of the economy in a new Associated Press-GfK poll, which also f...

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Obama: G-20 nations should take action to seal economic recovery

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — President Barack Obama is appealing to the world's major economies not to waver in their efforts to support a su...

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Obama FT Interview: Call For Global Unity

Financial Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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merican presidents sometimes give interviews in the Oval Office. On this occasion Barack Obama chooses the nearby Roosevelt room, named after Teddy Ro...

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Stop Bashing the Obama Economic Plan

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011

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It remains astonishing that a variety of pundits and lawmakers continue to underestimate Obama. Will Obama rescue the economy? Yes, he can. But not if the Democrats try to stop him first.

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Obama and Volcker: Economic Solutions, Good; Summers and Geithner: Financial Solutions, Not Good.

Saskia Sassen | Posted 05.25.2011

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The shadow banking system is not illegal or clandestine. It is in the open, but it has thrived on the opaqueness of the investment instruments, facilitated by their complexity.

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Obama Hits Road To Sell Economic Plan

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEDFORD HEIGHTS, Ohio — President-elect Barack Obama made a pitch for his massive economic stimulus plan at a Midwestern factory that manufactur...

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