Obama to outline new plan to help long-term unemployed: adviser

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Obama to outline new plan to help long-term unemployed: adviser

BY ROBERTA RAMPTON
WASHINGTON Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:36pm EST

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce a new plan next week to help Americans who continue to struggle to find jobs even as the economy recovers from recession, his senior adviser, Dan Pfeiffer, said on Saturday.

Obama's efforts to help the long-term unemployed are part of an economic strategy he will lay out in his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday and expound upon during a four-state tour, Pfeiffer said in a mass e-mail from the White House.

"With some action on all our parts, we can help more job seekers find work, and more working Americans find the economic security they deserve," Pfeiffer said in his e-mail.

"That's why, in the week following the speech, President Obama will travel to communities across the country - including Prince George's County, Maryland, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and Nashville, before returning to the White House to outline new efforts to help the long-term unemployed," he said.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/25/us-usa-obama-unemployment-idUSBREA0O0IP20140125

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Good. I hope the President uses these next three years to lay a solid foundation for this country...

I think he started in 2009 and 2010, but was blunted by the tea party assholes in Congress the last few years. Hopefully this means he's ready to go it alone. Do it, Mr. President!

[onehandle]

2. He needs to call out these knuckledragging obstructionists.

By name.

Make them walk out of the SoTU.