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Obama to expand job-training partnershipUPI.comALEXANDRIA, Va., June 8 (UPI) — The United States must "step up our game" to compete, including ensuring US students are well trained for jobs in demand, President Barack Obama said. The nation has "a set of long-term competitiveness challenges," …President Obama and Skills for [...]

Obama vs. the economy New WaPo/ABC poll finds Obama trailing Romney among registered voters, 49%-46%… But is Romney's boomlet temporary?…

Tim Pawlenty accused President Obama of being a "champion practitioner of class warfare." Elected with a call for [...]

Daily Mail

Romney and Obama neck and neckPoliticoA new poll from ABC and the Washington Post finds President Obama's "Bin Laden bounce" receding and Mitt Romney shoring up his position as Obama's most formidable opponent. Dan Balz and Jon Cohen: New Post-ABC …Obama loses bin Laden bounce; Romney [...]

Austan Goolsbee, one of President Barack Obama's longest serving policy advisers and the chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, leaves his post pretty much as he inherited it: with the economy moribund, …

Republican presidential candidate Tim [...]

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Obama Fed pick withdraws, slams partisan politicsReutersThe shaky US economy — in which unemployment is over 9 percent two years after the formal end of the recession — is a major liability for President Barack Obama as he prepares to seek reelection in 2012. Data on Friday [...]

Fundamentals decide the outcome of presidential campaigns, and this week's economic and political news were reminders of that, leaving President Obama to wonder just how difficult his reelection bid may turn out to be. …

Obama talks to Jeep workers in [...]

Boston Globe

Obama: Automakers inspire in face of 'headwinds'CBS News(AP) WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama says recent economic "headwinds" at home resulted from high gasoline prices, the Japanese earthquake and Europe's financial crisis. As inspiration for a broader recovery, he's citing the American auto …Obama gets [...]

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama cannot escape one giant vulnerability as he bids to keep his job: Millions of voters still don't have one. Suddenly, the snapshot of the American economy is depressing again.

Former DNC chair [...]

CBS News

Obama takes a bow in ToledoColumbus DispatchPaul Sancya | AP President Barack Obama hugs Chrysler employee Jill Opial before addressing workers at the Toledo plant. Charles Dharapak | associated Press The president greets residents after an unannounced visit to Fred's Pro Hardware …Obama says economy remains [...]

During the president's visit to Chrysler's auto plant in Ohio, he used the same standard themes of his campaign stump speech while downplaying the struggling economy.

When PPP polled Iowa in mid-April Barack Obama had negative approval numbers, was tied with Mike Huckabee, [...]