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“font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;”> WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama tapped labor economist Alan Krueger for a top administration post Monday, rounding out his White House economic team ahead of a highly-anticipated announcement next week on a new jobs initiative.
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“font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;”> Speaking in the Rose Garden, Obama said he expected Krueger, a former Treasury Department official and Princeton economist, to provide him with unvarnished economic guidance, not partisan political advice.
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“font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;”> “That’s more important than ever right now,” Obama said. “We need folks in Washington to make decisions based on what’s best for the country, not what’s best for any political party or special interest.”
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“font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;”> With the nation’s unemployment rate stubbornly stuck above 9 percent and much of the public deeply dissatisfied with Obama’s handling of the economy, the president has promised a new set of jobs proposals. He said Monday that he would make those announcements next week.
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“font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;”> “Our great challenge as a nation remains how to get this economy growing faster,” Obama said. “That’s our urgent mission.”
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Alan Krueger stands by as he President Barack Obama, not seen,
announces him as as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers,
Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in
Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)