barack obama, jobs

Obama Approval Rating: Likability Factor Keeping President Afloat

People like Christine Alonzo are keeping President Barack Obama afloat and giving his political team hope that he can win re-election despite high unemployment and sour attitudes about his policies and the country's future.

Obama plan would make small dent in jobless rate

Even if Congress heeds President Barack Obama's demands to "pass this bill right away" and enacts his jobs and tax plan in its entirety, the unemployment rate probably still would hover in nosebleed territory for at least three more years.

Senh: I would be happy with a 0.5% dent in the unemployment rate. If this jobs bill can produce a 1% drop in unemployment, that's pretty good. What do people expect, that Obama can instantly flick a switch and get unemployment back to pre-recession levels. That's unreasonable. A little bit at a time and eventually, we'll recover from this economic crisis.

Republican leaders oppose most of Obama's jobs plan

House Republican leaders came out against nearly all the major proposals in President Obama's $447 billion job-creation plan Friday, inluding ...

Opposition growing to Obama jobs plan

President Obama is getting push back from Republicans and Democrats alike to his $447 billion jobs plan... While those concerns are what House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called "anecdotal" rather than unanimous, the hesitance by some Democrats to embrace the entire plan could force the White House to accept its breakup into smaller pieces.

Obama to promote jobs plan in Boehner's home state

President Barack Obama is visiting a school undergoing a multimillion-dollar renovation to sell his proposal for creating more jobs. And it's no coincidence that the school is in Ohio, the home state of House Speaker John Boehner, a critic of the president's proposal to tax the rich to pay for his plan....