WASHINGTON (AFP) – President-elect Barack Obama has boosted plans to kickstart the ailing US economy with an ambitious goal to create three million jobs and unveiled Sunday a task force to protect working families.
Several Obama advisors told US media that after a four-hour meeting last week with his economic advisors, Obama added another 500,000 jobs to his plan announced a month ago to create 2.5 million jobs over the next two years.
Faced with fears the United States will now shed some 3.5 million jobs in 2009, driving unemployment rates up from 6.7 percent to above nine percent, Obama decided on a more aggressive strategy, the Washington Post reported.
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