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President Lays Out Economic Recovery Agenda: Emphasis on Energy, Education and Health Care
By Merle David Kellerhals Jr., Staff Writer
February 25, 2009, Washington — President Obama spoke to Americans before a joint session of the U.S. Congress about his plans to stabilize, revitalize and expand an American economy that has been weakened and buffeted by an array of conflicting forces, from tight credit to stumbling stock markets.
His address, carried on national television February 24, set out his economic agenda to expand job opportunities, loosen credit to restart investment, address long-standing efforts to improve energy needs while lessening oil dependence, expand health care to all Americans, increase education, and begin the phased withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. (more)
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