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Obama planning new package of economic aid

Amarillo - Amarillo TX, one minute ago / Eager to jumpstart the economy ahead of crucial midterm elections, President Barack Obama said Friday he intends to unveil a new package of proposals, likely including tax cuts and targeted spending, to spark job growth.

Chevron to pay $2.85M for bay wetlands restoration

The Fresno Bee - Fresno CA, one minute ago / President Barack Obama will use the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to reaffirm his commitment to the Gulf Coast amid lingering questions over his administration's response to the BP oil spill.

Despite hiring, US unemployment rate seems frozen

Idaho State Journal - Pocatello ID, one minute ago / Unemployment is stuck at high levels even though some companies are hiring.

Obama’s ‘Recovery Summer’ feels more like a winter of discontent

The Globe and Mail - Toronto ON - Canada, 2 minutes ago / I f that was Barack Obama's summer of recovery, Americans will be relieved to see Labour Day. As the government announced that the unemployment rate rose a notch to 9.6 per cent in August, a new poll out Friday showed that four-fifths of Americans think the country is still in a recession.

Companies add 67K workers, but jobless rate rises

The San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo CA, 8 minutes ago / While the report hardly suggests the economy is out of danger, it's a reassuring sign after weeks of troubling data and comes after some encouraging economic figures in the past week.

Obama ends Iraq combat effort: 'Time to turn page'

TMCnet, 10 minutes ago / President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared an end to the U.S. combat role in Iraq after more than seven years of war, saying the country's future now is up to its own people.

Obama To Award Posthumous Medal Of Honor To PA Man

From the Road - CBS News, 25 minutes ago / President Barack Obama is awarding a posthumous Medal of Honor to an Air Force chief master sergeant who braved enemy fire to help three wounded comrades before suffering his own fatal wounds during combat in Laos in 1968.

Lessons of the recession: Stimulus helped, but it was too small — we need another round

The Seattle Times - Seattle WA, 37 minutes ago / This week, President Barack Obama is scheduled to propose new measures to boost the economy.

Unemployment rate rises but private firms are hiring

The Cass County Democrat Missourian - Harrisonville MO, 40 minutes ago / The unemployment rate went up slightly to 9.6 percent in August as employers shed 54,000 jobs during the month, the Labor Department said Friday in a jobs report that nonetheless provided a surprise in better-than-expected private-sector and temporary hiring.

Warren mayor blasts Obama over GM staying in Detroit

The Macomb Daily - Mount Clemens MI, 42 minutes ago / Warren Mayor James Fouts on Friday blasted President Barack Obama over revelations in a new book that the president pressured General Motors to not move its headquarters to Warren last year.

Obama to campaign for Blumenthal in Conn.

Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas NV, 46 minutes ago / President Barack Obama plans to attend a fundraiser later this month to help Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's campaign for the U.S. Senate.

Obama to campaign for Blumenthal in Conn.

SFGate.com - San Francisco CA, 1 hour ago / President Barack Obama plans to attend a fundraiser later this month to help Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's campaign for the U.S. Senate.

Bill Lichtenstein: U.S. Jobs: Good News Is No News To Fox and Glenn Beck

The Huffington Post, 1 hour 1 minute ago / News came this morning that the U.S. unemployment rate increased in August, to 9.6 from 9.5 percent in July .

Black men hit hardest by unemployment; Obama calls for small business bill

The St. Louis American - St. Louis MO, 1 hour 2 minutes ago / As the nation's largest peacetime jobs program – the U.S. Census 2010 effort – winds down and its temporary workforce continues to join the ranks of the unemployed, a growth in private sector jobs was not enough to keep the unemployment rate from climbing slightly – one-tenth of a percentage point to 9.6 percent – in August.

2011: Major tax shocks coming

The Lakeland Times - Minocqua WI, 1 hour 12 minutes ago / Some of the largest tax increases in American history, by almost all objective analyses, unless Congress acts.

Business Highlights

The San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego CA, 1 hour 21 minutes ago / Private employers hired more workers over the past three months than first thought, a glimmer of hope for the weak economy ahead of the Labor Day weekend.

Obama, NATO Secretary-general To Meet Next Tuesday

From the Road - CBS News, 1 hour 25 minutes ago / President Barack Obama plans to meet at the White House next week with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (AHN'-derz FOHG RAHS'-moo-sihn).

Dems have few options on economy

Politico, 1 hour 35 minutes ago / The few things that might pass Congress – such as a payroll tax holiday or extended research-and-development tax credits – won't work, or at least not before November's midterm elections, when Democrats face potentially devastating losses.

Obama needs a 'phalanx of political and policy power'

Hardblogger - MSNBC, 2 hours 3 minutes ago / Let me finish tonight with a plan to strengthen America's ability to solve its problems.

Obama raising cash for Sestak

The Swamp - Chicago Tribune, 2 hours 6 minutes ago / President Barack Obama is scheduled to headline a fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak in Philadelphia on Sept. 20.

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Somali MPs killed in suicide bomb attack on Mogadishu hotel Telegraph - London - UK
Telegraph - London - UK, Aug 24, 2010/ The attack comes amid two days of fighting that have killed at least 40 civilians and wounded more than 130 in the capital according to Ali Muse, the head of Mogadishu's ambulance service.
Plane crashes in Nepal; foreigners among 14 dead The Seattle Times - Seattle WA
The Seattle Times - Seattle WA, Aug 24, 2010/ A small passenger plane heading to the Mount Everest region crashed in heavy rain Tuesday outside Nepal's capital, killing all 14 people aboard, including four Americans, a Briton and a Japanese national, officials said.
Cairn Energy narrows loss, sees Greenland promise MarketWatch
MarketWatch, Aug 24, 2010/ Scottish-headquartered oil exploration group Cairn Energy reported Tuesday that it sharply reduced net losses for the first half of the year, saying its first well in Greenland is showing signs of promise.
World stock markets fall as economy worries linger The Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach FL
The Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach FL, Aug 24, 2010/ World stock markets retreated Tuesday as the strong yen knocked Japanese shares and investors anticipated more bad news from U.S. economic reports this week.
Two British hostages survive bus siege carnage as eight are shot dead by rogue cop The Daily Mirror - London - UK
The Daily Mirror - London - UK, Aug 24, 2010/ Two Britons were rescued from a horrifying bus siege in which eight hostages died yesterday after a sacked policeman made a crazed attempt to get his job back.

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" Any solution to our unemployment catastrophe must arise from us working creatively within a multicultural, interdependent, and international economy. Any African-Americans who are only talking about racism as a barrier to our success are seriously misled if they don't also come to grips with the larger economic forces that are creating economic insecurity for all workers—whites, Latinos, and Asians. We must deal with the forces that are depressing wages, lopping off people's benefits right and left, and creating an earnings gap between CEOs and the lowest-paid worker that has risen in the last 20 years from a ratio of 10 to 1 to one of better than 100 to 1. "
Chicago Reader - Chicago IL, Aug 30, 2010
" Exhortations are not enough, nor are the notions that we can create a black economy within America that is hermetically sealed from the rest of the economy and seriously tackle the major issues confronting us "
Chicago Reader - Chicago IL, Aug 30, 2010
" But what was lacking among march organizers was a positive agenda, a coherent agenda for change. Without this agenda a lot of this energy is going to dissipate. Just as holding hands and singing 'We shall overcome' is not going to do it, exhorting youth to have pride in their race, give up drugs and crime, is not going to do it if we can't find jobs and futures for the 50 percent of black youth who are unemployed, underemployed, and full of bitterness and rage. "
Chicago Reader - Chicago IL, Aug 30, 2010
" Once elected, once I'm known, I won't need that kind of money, just as Harold Washington, once he was elected and known, did not need to raise and spend money to get the black vote. "
Chicago Reader - Chicago IL, Aug 30, 2010
" But to organize this district I must get known. And this costs money. I admit that in this transitional period, before I'm known in the district, I'm going to have to rely on some contributions from wealthy people—people who like my ideas but who won't attach strings. This is not ideal, but it is a problem encountered by everyone in their first campaign. "
Chicago Reader - Chicago IL, Aug 30, 2010

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Barack Hussein Obama II (; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States.

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Obama planning new package of economic aid

Chevron to pay $2.85M for bay wetlands restoration

Despite hiring, US unemployment rate seems frozen

Obama’s ‘Recovery Summer’ feels more like a winter of discontent

Companies add 67K workers, but jobless rate rises

Obama ends Iraq combat effort: 'Time to turn page'

Obama To Award Posthumous Medal Of Honor To PA Man

Lessons of the recession: Stimulus helped, but it was too small — we need another round

Unemployment rate rises but private firms are hiring

Warren mayor blasts Obama over GM staying in Detroit

Obama to campaign for Blumenthal in Conn.

Obama to campaign for Blumenthal in Conn.

Bill Lichtenstein: U.S. Jobs: Good News Is No News To Fox and Glenn Beck

Black men hit hardest by unemployment; Obama calls for small business bill

2011: Major tax shocks coming

Business Highlights

Obama, NATO Secretary-general To Meet Next Tuesday

Dems have few options on economy

Obama needs a 'phalanx of political and policy power'

Obama raising cash for Sestak

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