Health Care, Energy Still Part of Agenda
Job-seekers look for opportunities and work on their résumés at WorkSource California in Los Angeles. (By Reed Saxon — Associated Press)
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 16, 2008; Page A06
For most of his campaign, President-elect Barack Obama‘s economic message was a call to restore balance to an off-kilter system, with investments in health care and education and reforms to the tax code and labor laws.
But the Democratic message on the economy is now boiling down to a more blunt and focused rallying cry: jobs, jobs, jobs.
With unemployment claims at a 14-year high, and with Goldman Sachs economists predicting that the jobless rate could rise to 8.5 percent by the end of 2009, Democrats are seizing on job creation as an argument for aggressive action that they say will be hard for Republicans to resist. Read the rest of this entry »
