Policies sought to add jobs without piling on the deficit
With the nation's unemployment rate at its highest point in 26 years and projected to rise, the Obama administration is intensifying its search for policies that can stoke job creation without adding significantly to the nation's crippling budget deficit. One day after top economic advisers met...
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- News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner | 20 days agoThe Treasury Department now expects to hit the government's debt limit in December, two months later than its initial estimate, after scaling back an emergency loan program as the financial crisis abated. Treasury Department officials said Wednesday...
- News Source: The Olympia | 20 days agoBloomberg News • Published November 04, 2009 New York – White House budget director Peter Orszag said the 2010 federal deficit will be little changed from 2009’s record $1.42 trillion, and he pledged to reduce the amount of red ink without...
- News Source: Washington Post | 20 days agoWith the nation's unemployment rate at its highest point in 26 years and projected to rise, the Obama administration is intensifying its search for policies that can stoke job creation without adding significantly to the nation's crippling budget...
- News Source: The Hill | 20 days agoThe speech was made exactly one year before the midterm elections and as many vulnerable centrist Democrats fear voters will respond to the poor economy on Election Day 2010. It also comes after a year of deficit spending, most notably a $787 billion...
- News Source: Palm Beach Post | 21 days agoPresident Barack Obama's top budget official promised Tuesday that the administration will try next year to wrestle the skyrocketing budget deficit under control to avoid higher interest rates and putting the health of the economy in jeopardy. But it...
- News Source: The Hill | 21 days agoOrszag, in a speech in New York, said that deficits, expected to add $9 trillion to the current national debt of $12 trillion over the next decade, are "serious and ultimately unsustainable." Orszag said that deficit spending was necessary to help...
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- Blog Source: thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.comPeter R. Orszag, President Obama's budget director, said on Tuesday that the White House economic team is considering "a range of options" so the president can keep his promise to reduce federal budget deficits.
- Blog Source: www.washingtonexaminer.comOrszag said the administration would propose to cut the deficit inherited by Obama in half by 2013. Under White House budget office calculations, the deficit goal for 2013 is about $650 billion. The speech was intended to send a signal that after ...
- Blog Source: blogs.wsj.comWithout providing much in the way of specifics, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag Tuesday said the Obama administration is currently mulling several measures to put the economy on a sustainable, fiscal path.
- Blog Source: blogs.wsj.comSpeaking at New York University today, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag said that “a significant coalition within the Congress” is building for action to reduce long-term annual budget deficits after health care is completed. ...
- Blog Source: www.cc.orgAfter almost a year of big, new spending proposals - to say nothing of the tab that will come along with government run health care - the White House is signaling that this year's one and a half trillion dollar deficit might be a ...
- Blog Source: www.theepochtimes.comPresident Barack Obama is constantly seeking ways to improve job creation, the White House said. ... U.S. budget deficits, say this would do more harm than good by burying the country in debt. Gibbs stressed that growth was Obama's first goal. "The
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