Obama seeks ways around Congress to boost economy
Publié
par
Clifford Armion
le 14/06/2011
Peter Nicholas
"Reporting from Durham, N.C. With traditional tools to jolt the economy largely exhausted or unavailable to him, President Obama is turning to more modest measures in an effort to persuade voters that he is continuing to fight for the millions who are out of work. "Obama's meeting here Monday with business experts and workers was shadowed by a wave of ominous economic reports that could be the president's political undoing. The unemployment rate last week ticked up to 9.1%; the housing market has sagged to 2002 levels; and first-quarter economic growth was an anemic 1.8%. "All this has created openings for Republican presidential hopefuls. Mitt Romney, the nominal GOP front-runner, was deadlocked with Obama in one recent poll, having made the economy the central thrust of his campaign." Read on...Pour citer cette ressource :
"Obama seeks ways around Congress to boost economy", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), juin 2011. Consulté le 29/03/2023. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/obama-seeks-ways-around-congress-to-boost-economy