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Obama's Wager on Clean Energy: The Right Role for Government?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThere he goes again, picking winners and losers. That would be President Barack Obama, who visited Penn State University this week to shower love and money -- yet again -- on the clean, green energy sector. This is not a mere crush. Obama has been promoting green energy and green jobs on the national stage since he announced his presidential candidacy four years ago. The terminology has changed (Democrats now prefer "clean energy") but Obama's commitment has not. The 2009 stimulus package contained more than $80 billion in spending and tax incentives for the clean energy sector. Obama's trips ...
At a N.C. Factory, Obama Touts Jobs Numbers: 'We are Beginning to Turn the Corner'
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The last time Barack Obama visited Charlotte, it was the night before the 2008 election. His mood was both somber, as he mourned the death of the grandmother who helped raise him, and optimistic about his chances in a state no Democratic presidential candidate had won since 1976. His return as president on Friday was all business. Election Day – when he claimed North Carolina by 14,000 votes – was nearly a year and a half ago. On this visit, Obama toured a manufacturing plant and talked with workers there about the economy on the same day that March jobs ...
Jobs Summit Features Execs Who Have Cut Many Jobs
By Tamara Lytle - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 3) -- The business leaders President Barack Obama gathered Thursday for advice on how to create jobs have themselves laid off tens of thousands of workers. Obama invited more than 130 leaders from business, labor, academia, nonprofits and local government to talk about the issue that casts a shadow over the country -- and his approval ratings. One in 10 Americans is unemployed. The economy still is shedding jobs -- and economists expect that trend will continue Friday when the government announces new figures. "I am not interested in taking a wait-and-see approach when it ...
Energy Memo: Democrats Need to Fight Smarter
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyDemocrats like to talk about green jobs and cap-and-trade. A new strategy memo says they need to ditch those phrases, play down global warming and fight back on what their plans will cost Americans if they want to prevail in the high-stakes energy debate about to erupt on Capitol Hill. ...
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