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Obama Hopes to Build Roads, Runways and Jobs

By Joseph SchumanSep 6th 2010 – 3:22PM
Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP

Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP

(Sept. 6) -- President Barack Obama made a Labor Day pitch for some $50 billion in new road, rail and airport construction projects with a plan that aims to overhaul national infrastructure spending and jump-start job creation, as well as a campaign season slap at Republicans he accused of obstructing both those goals. In...

Jobs Summit Features Execs Who Have Cut Many Jobs

By Tamara LytleDec 3rd 2009 – 7:27PM

WASHINGTON (Dec. 3) -- The business leaders President Barack Obama gathered Thursday for advice on how to create jobs have themselves laid off tens of thousands of workers. Obama invited more than 130 leaders from business, labor, academia, nonprofits and local government to talk about the issue that casts a shadow over...

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