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Good News: Obama’s Jobs Council Expires on Thursday

worker Wrote: Jan 31, 2013 5:02 PM

Why have a jobs council if your not going to listen to them. Besides this unemployment rate hovering around 8% is the new normal. If he stops talking about jobs the low information liberal voters will forget that we had a 5.4% unemployment rate under Bush and before the democrats took control of congress.

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Good News: Obama’s Jobs Council Expires on Thursday

We learned yesterday that the economy shrunk last quarter for the first time since the 2008 recession ended, due in large part to cuts to the military. Now, less than 24 hours later, the Associated Press is reporting that the president will let his jobs council expire -- and has opted not to renew its charter:

President Barack Obama will let his jobs council expire this week without renewing its charter, winding down one source of input from the business community even as unemployment remains stubbornly high.

When Obama in January 2011 formed his Council on Jobs and...

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