Jobs have become one of the most important barometers in assessing the president's performance, and the latest report shows that, in some ways, the economy has slipped backward. The anemic economic recovery is taking a political toll on the president, am
A weak jobs report for July is posing a challenge to President Obama and Congressional Democrats as they head into the mid-term elections.
The president said last year's $60 billion rescue of GM and Chrysler saved an estimated one million jobs.
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The president has been under fire from some of the biggest business lobbies, who say his policies and rhetoric have undermined growth. Now, the administration is making a new attempt to reach out to business leaders -- telling them it's ready to listen to
Obama said that the rising national debt is a real and legitimate concern and that the U.S. must reorder its priorities to gain control over federal spending, but offered no specific ideas for how to tackle the problem.