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Christine Fisher
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'Job One' for the President: Creating Jobs In America's "jobless" economic recovery, unemployment is setting records. The Obama Administration has adopted a long-term approach to creating new jobs . But the President has now conceded that "our friends, neighbors and family members are desperately searching for jobs." He's called for a Jobs Summit at the White House next month.
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'Job One' for the President: Creating Jobs In America's "jobless" economic recovery, unemployment is setting records. The Obama Administration has adopted a long-term approach to creating new jobs . But the President has now conceded that "our friends, neighbors and family members are desperately searching for jobs," and has called for a Jobs Summit at the White House next month, partly in response to Democrats worried about next year's mid-term elections. Since the current increase in economic growth is not creating jobs the way it's supposed to, what about a more direct approach? In Germany, which gave birth to " Cash for Clunkers ," the government has kept unemployment down by subsidizing a work-sharing program. Are there other programs that can be borrowed from Europe? What about getting the banks to lend money?
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