Obama outlines US jobs plan

September 09, 2011 12:06

In other news, US President Barack Obama has urged lawmakers to back his ambitious proposals aimed at creating more jobs and cutting taxes. In a rare address to a joint session of Congress, he said he wanted to get the unemployed back to work, put money in employees' pockets and rebuild infrastructure, says the bbc.co.uk.

Read the full text of Obama's speech to Congress.

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