Reuters – One year before voters decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama to a second term, a majority have little faith in his handling of the economy but he still leads his Republican rivals, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Monday.
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AP – President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. economy is growing way too slow but said leaders at a world summit have made progress at getting their countries on firmer footing.
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AP – President Barack Obama says what’s best for the American people and the economy will guide his administration’s decision on whether a Canadian company can go ahead with a transnational oil pipeline to Texas.
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AP – President Barack Obama’s top political adviser is defending the administration’s handling of the economy and blaming Congress for not pushing through more sweeping changes.
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Reuters – President Barack Obama launched the first in a series of executive actions on Monday aimed at bypassing Republicans in Congress to show American voters he is serious about tackling a jobs and housing crisis that endangers his re-election.
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AP – The extreme funk that settled over the country during the summer has eased slightly, but Americans remain gloomy about the economy and more than half say President Barack Obama does not inspire confidence about a recovery.
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AP – Congress was set to approve on Wednesday free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama that have the potential to spur economic activity and put Americans back to work. President Barack Obama and Republicans said the expected action showed that they can cooperate to revive the struggling economy.
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AP – President Barack Obama is pressing for passage of his full $447 billion jobs package in the face of certain congressional defeat while embracing more modest administrative remedies to the nation’s sluggish economy and unwaveringly high unemployment.
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AP – Decrying the human toll of the nation’s economic and financial crisis, a group of corporate and labor leaders advising President Barack Obama is calling for sweeping and urgent changes in government policies, from liberalized immigration and less restrictive regulations to a more business friendly tax system and greater spending on infrastructure.
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AP – President Barack Obama pledged U.S. support for Tunisia’s political and economic development, as he welcomed the North African nation’s prime minister to the White House for a meeting steeped in symbolism.
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AP – A combative President Barack Obama challenged a divided Congress on Thursday to unite behind his jobs bill or get ready to be run “out of town” by angry voters. Hoping to use public frustration and economic worry as leverage, he called his proposal an insurance plan against a painful return to recession.
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AP – President Barack Obama and his House Republican adversaries feuded over how to best create jobs in the weakened U.S. economy Saturday, with Obama demanding Congress pass his $447 billion jobs bill and the GOP countering with a call for less government red tape.
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