Sentences with phrase «obama jobs plan»

Organizer Cara Noel, a spokeswoman for UnitedNY, said the event allowed community residents to voice support for the Obama jobs plan.

(The same argument was made — successfully — in response to the Obama jobs plan by Sen. Chuck Schumer).

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President Obama today unveiled a plan to close overseas tax loopholes, lower corporate topline tax rates and invest in infrastructure growth in the U.S. to generate jobs domestically.

Obama's jobs plan (speech transcript) has to win the approval of the same debt hawks in Washington who recently gave Standard & Poor's an excuse (read the press release here) to downgrade America's credit by threatening to not raise the nation's debt ceiling.

Actually, with UT - Dallas proposing to perform the needed engineering and having the endorsement of Mr. Tom Hill (Senior Fellow EDS), if I had a working model today B - Systems provided to global societies is the stimulus plan that President Obama and Congress are in need of (if they really desire to create jobs).

The Obama administration says the plan could lead to «30 percent more renewable energy generation in 2030» and «create tens of thousands of jobs.»

The president - elect has promised to «rescind all the job - destroying Obama executive actions, including the Climate Action Plan,» Obama's national blueprint for cutting carbon pollution.

-- Recent study by Pepperdine University and UpMo.com — «We estimate about 3.5 million jobs will created (from President Obama's stimulus plan) but it will be over a period of one to two years.»

«If it is correct that the speaker, before he resigns, has cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi to fund the Obama administration for the rest of this year, to fund Obamacare, to fund executive amnesty, to fund Planned Parenthood, to fund implementation of this Iran deal, and then presumably to land a cushy K Street job after joining with the Democrats to implement all of President Obama's priorities, that is not the behavior one would expect from a Republican speaker of the House.»

President Obama holds a town - hall meeting at the headquarters of LinkedIn, the social and business networking website, to press Congress to adopt his $ 447 billion jobs plan.

Today's much - anticipated speech by President Obama unveiling his latest jobs plan is not just an opportunity to jockey for political position, it's an opportunity for investors.

President Obama's $ 447 billion jobs plan would help avoid a return to recession by maintaining growth and pushing down the unemployment rate next year, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.

Rogers, who worked with the Obama administration during the planning of his first inauguration in 2009, will become Director of the Office of Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, a job that includes working with outside religious groups and acting as the top White House official on religious issues.

I still plan to vote for Obama because I think he'll do a better job of uniting the country and because he hasn't taken money from registered lobbyists.

I voted for him because I thought he'd be the best man for the job, and I plan to wear my «Obama 08» button proudly on Tuesday.

The one where they are supposed to chant «Job's Job's Job's» everytime the economy is mentioned in an attempt to make it seem like Obama is responsible for the unemployment numbers when it's really the Bush economy and bank bailout coupled with a do nothing republican congress that is keeping us above 8 % unemployment as the republicans have been planning since Nov 4th 2008.

«Harlem's Man With the Plan,» January / February 2009 «Obama, drawing on the research of his Hyde Park neighbor, the economist James Heckman, has made the point that programs like the Harlem Children's Zone are not giveaways; they're investments that will pay for themselves in reduced spending on welfare, job training, and the criminal justice system.»

It follows from a careful assessment of President Barack Obama's job plan, which saw $ 447 billion (# 283 billion) injected into the US economy.

While campaigning on Paladino's home turf (he was at the Niagara Blower Company in Erie County), Lazio was asked about the Obama administration's new focus on the economy — specifically the president's plan to let businesses deduct the full value of new equipment purchases through 2011 to increase the demand for goods and create jobs.

He said it was important to send a message to Obama on jobs, because Obama's jobs plan amounts to «warmed - over spit.»

The Senate Democrats have proposed funding Obama's $ 447 billion jobs plan by imposing a 5.6 percent annual surcharge on Americans who earn $ 1 million or more annually.

This funding is an important part of the Obama Administration's plan to conserve natural resources, create jobs and lead our country on the path to becoming more energy independent.

Within his first 100 days, he plans to scrap outdated regulation and withdraw from «job - destroying» climate plans introduced by the Obama Administration.

Washington (CNN)- President Barack Obama is leaning toward supporting a congressional Democratic plan to craft a jobs bill by using untapped bailout funds, according to two senior officials familiar with the deliberations.

Washington (CNN)- President Obama is leaning towards supporting a Congressional Democratic plan to craft a jobs bill by using untapped bailout funds, according to two senior officials familiar with the deliberations.

Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine (Va.) said that Murphy «embraced President Obama's message of change and his plans to fix our economy and create jobs, and as a result he stormed from more than 20 points down to winning a majority of votes cast tonight.»

House Majority Leader John Boehner called Obama's record $ 3.6 trillion budget «completely irresponsible» and pledged the GOP plan «curbs spending, creates jobs and cuts taxes, while reducing the deficit.»

When Obama emphasized his «all of the above» energy plan, it sparked a combative back - and - forth duel with a subtext about who would create more jobs by permitting the private sector to develop fossil fuels on public land and on the outer continental shelf.

In early August Obama unveiled his energy plan, advocating for cooperating «with the Canadian government to finally build the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline, delivering clean natural gas and creating good jobs in the process.»

Obama sought to neutralize both lines of criticism in his remarks Thursday, claiming that his plan would bring 2,500 extra jobs to Florida's Space Coast compared to the Constellation Program.

As the smoke clears from the opening congressional salvos in the 2013 budget wars, the Obama Administration finds itself with the unexpected — but not entirely unpleasant — job of deciding how to respond to legislators» preliminary plans to give some science programs more money than the White House had requested.

«We're going to let states, schools and teachers come up with innovative ways to give our children the skills they need to compete for the jobs of the future,» promised Obama when announcing his NCLB waiver plan.

Duncan said that while Obama's jobs plan is not a viable long - term fix, the bill would provide immediate relief.

But with the hubbub of the super committee's activities and Obama's emphasis on the jobs plan, there are no guarantees the bill will get time on the floor.

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

The Obama administration has released its plan for a major overhaul of the federal program that provides secondary and postsecondary school students with access to job - related courses and training.

In a news release about Obama's plans to visit Manor New Tech, White House spokesman Josh Earnest recognized the school's students for learning «real world skills» needed for jobs available right now.

Obama's fiscal 2013 budget plan calls for maintaining the maximum Pell Grants award, increasing the Perkins Loan Program, providing needed support for community colleges to meet the needs of local and regional job markets, and boosting teacher education programs at institutions that serve minorities.

In recent days, President Obama has hinted that stemming the tide of teacher layoffs by providing aid to financially struggling states and districts could be an important part of his plan to spur job growth and improve the economy.

So, President Obama developed and deployed an economic plan that builds bridges between Americans who need jobs and jobs that need doing.

«The Obama Administration's bold high - speed rail plan will create jobs, reinvigorate our manufacturing sector and spur economic development for years to come,» said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

President Obama started the income based payment plan where after making 10 years of payments while working for 10 years in a position serving at a non-profit job where I serve homeless youth, the rest of the balance due is forgiven.

WASHINGTON, DC — As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy sources and cut carbon pollution, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper today announced a proposed lease sale for 122,405 acres offshore North Carolina for commercial wind energy leasing.

Obama has pledged three million new jobs with his stimulus plan, which also includes tax cuts, investment in computerizing medical records, modernizing schools and universities, repairing roads and bridges and expanding broadband access to rural towns.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday rolling back the Clean Power Plan, one of the Obama administration's key climate change policies, in order to «grow American jobs,» and «end the theft of prosperity.»

President Obama's Clean Power Plan alone could have imposed $ 1 trillion in lost output, 125,000 lost jobs, and double - digit increases in electricity prices, the Wall Street Journal noted.

He advocated rescinding «all the job - destroying Obama executive actions, including the Climate Action Plan» and said he would «cancel the Paris Climate Agreement and stop all payments of U.S. tax dollars to U.N. global warming programs.»

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other critics have said the plan will raise electricity rates and cut jobs, but the Obama Administration counters that fears are overblown and new rules are necessary to protect public safety.

And the pro-business U.S. Chamber of Commerce says that Obama's plan will kill jobs in utilities and other sectors while raising costs to U.S. consumers.

For instance Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., said that Obama's plan on climate change was was a «war on coal» and on jobs.