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'Job One' for the President: Creating Jobs
Bill Clinton won the White House by never forgetting that "it's the economy, stupid." Now unemployment looms as big or bigger for Barack Obama than healthcare or climate change. What more can the government to do create jobs? Can it happen before next year's mid-term elections? Also, President Obama's town-hall meeting in Shanghai, and Sarah Palin, the book the Presidency and the polls.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenBill Clinton won the White House by never forgetting that "it's the economy, stupid." Now unemployment looms as big or bigger for Barack Obama than healthcare or climate change. What more can the government to do create jobs? Can it happen before next year's mid-term elections? Also, President Obama's town-hall meeting in Shanghai. On Reporter's Notebook, as former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin begins her book tour, what are her prospects for a political future?
Banner image: Prseident Obama meets with CEO's, small business owners, labor leaders, nonprofit heads and thinkers about ideas for continuing to grow the economy and put Americans back to work. White House Photo: Pete Souza
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3 storiesObama Holds Town Hall Meeting in Shanghai
President Obama says China now carries "a burden of leadership" it shares with the United States, as he moves from a town hall with students in Shanghai to public appearances with President Hu Jintao in Beijing. Andrew Nathan is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and editor of How East Asians View Democracy .
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In America's "jobless" economic recovery, unemployment is setting records. The Obama Administration has adopted a long-term approach to creating new jobs .
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Going Rogue : An American Life is out tomorrow, and Sarah Palin has already begun her much-publicized book tour, including stops with Barbara Walters, Oprah Winfrey and Larry King. But if she wants to be a national political candidate, she has a long way to go.
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