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The American Jobs Act: The Economy and the Presidency
After last night’s address to Congress, President Obama took his American Jobs Act out on the road today. We hear how it’s playing with Democrats, Republicans and different sectors of the voting population...
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenAfter last night’s address to Congress, President Obama took his American Jobs Act out on the road today. We hear how it’s playing with Democrats, Republicans and different sectors of the voting population. Also, one worker’s mistake causes a massive power outage, and how Ground Zero in 2011 has become “a careful balance between commerce and commemoration.”
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3 storiesPresident Obama and the American Jobs Act
President Obama challenged Congress last night to shut down the "political circus" in Washington and work together--before next year's election. He said everything in his American Jobs Act had been approved in the past by both Democrats and Republicans.
Read the story1 minOne Worker's Mistake Causes Massive Power Outage
Power has been restored to 90 percent of the five million people who were blacked out for 12 hours yesterday and this morning in San Diego, Palm Desert and Orange County in California as well as in Arizona and Baja California. The outage is being attributed to a single utility employ in Yuma, Arizona. Tony Perry is San Diego Bureau Chief for…
Read the story1 minGround Zero, Ten Years On
In the past ten years, plans for a memorial at Ground Zero have progressed, along with a growing sense that, in the midst of downtown Manhattan, it could not be obsessed with the past, especially since New York's urban life was itself a terrorist target. On the other hand, it would be worse if the space were filled with commercial buildings.
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