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Monday, December 22, 2008

Obama raises job target,

taps Biden to help workers

Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:37pm EST
 
By Paul Eckert
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama unveiled a new task force on Sunday charged with helping struggling working families, as an aide said Obama's economic recovery plan would be expanded to try to save 3 million jobs.
The White House Task Force on Working Families, to be headed by Vice President-elect Joe Biden, would aim to boost education and training and protect incomes and retirement security of middle-class and working families whose plight Obama had made a central issue of his campaign. Read on..
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE4BK1F520081221
 

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