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President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress Thursday to preview his jobs plan.A day after President Obama big jobs speech, we checked back in with a group of unemployed Chicago-area workers to get their reaction to his proposal. The $447 billion American Jobs Act includes an expansion and extension of payroll tax cuts, infrastructure spending, aid to states to retain teachers and first responders, and an extension of unemployment insurance, among other provisions.Here what folks had to say about the speech:Linda SpinelliUne
stanley cup mployed over a yearWorked as a project manager in constructionWatch Linda pre-speech interview here.Coming from construction, I still want to know more about what they are doing to make sure projects are shovel-ready, and getting obstacles out of the way for these projects. A shovel-ready
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stanley cup t means there isn ;t another two years of engineering surveys that need to be done, that there aren ;t 22 more meetings that need to happen with township committees in short, that the project is ready to start. I think shovel-ready projects will be a future part of Obama plan. I liked everything he was saying, if in fact they are all executable in a short time frame. I ;ve been unemployed and employed and again unemployed for the last four years. I ;ve gone through my life savings, my home equity loan, and now I ;m going through my 401 k , just to cover daily life expenses. I 8 Ajnl Sanders, Clinton set to talk Tuesday
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Biden administration is stepping up pressure on Russia over a buildup of troops along its frontier with Ukraine.As Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to meet his Ukrainian counterpart in Washington on Wednesday, the top U.S. d
adidas campus iplomat for Europe said the administration is watching the border situation closely and would regard any escalation with deep concern.Karen Donfried, assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, told The Associated Press that senior Russian officials have been warned of potential consequences for any increased threat to Ukraine security from what she called unusual military activity near Ukraine.She would not discuss specific consequences for Russia, but a
adidas campus dministration officials have in the past said boosting military support for Ukraine is one option. Donfried also said the U.S. would continue to warn Russia against using energy exports as a political weapon against Europe generally and Ukraine specifically.Donfried was part of a U.S. delegation led by CIA Director William Burns that visited Moscow last week and delivered that message personally to Kremlin officials. After leaving Moscow, Donfried traveled to Kyiv to brief Ukrainian officials on the meetings.Any time we see unusual Russian military activity near Ukraine we make clear that any escalatory or aggressive action is of great concern to the United States, she said. We ;re very clear that we sup
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