Obama Touts Economic Goals During Knox College Speech
From the Peoria Journal-Star
President Barack Obama sounded a clarion call for a host of changes designed to bolster the middle class during a speech Wednesday at Knox College.
During the hourlong address, he vowed to use “every minute of the remaining 1,276 days of my term to make this country work.”
How he would do so was contained in a multi-part plan with a core focus, creating “an economy that grows from the middle out, not from the top down.” The objectives are varied: strengthening hiring in growing industries; combating income inequality; improving education while containing student loan costs; strengthening retirement security; increasing home ownership; and implementing his signature health care reform package.
Obama received sustained applause from the crowd of several hundred as he hit on each of the themes — being interrupted once by someone from the crowd calling out that thanks to the last of those, grateful that his daughter now had health care available.
The problems, Obama said, “have been made worse” throughout the Great Recession, and he insisted that addressing economic issues needed to be job No. 1.
“Our focus has to be on the basic economic issues that matter most to you — the people we represent,” he said.
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From the Peoria Journal-Star
President Barack Obama sounded a clarion call for a host of changes designed to bolster the middle class during a speech Wednesday at Knox College.
During the hourlong address, he vowed to use “every minute of the remaining 1,276 days of my term to make this country work.”
How he would do so was contained in a multi-part plan with a core focus, creating “an economy that grows from the middle out, not from the top down.” The objectives are varied: strengthening hiring in growing industries; combating income inequality; improving education while containing student loan costs; strengthening retirement security; increasing home ownership; and implementing his signature health care reform package.
Obama received sustained applause from the crowd of several hundred as he hit on each of the themes — being interrupted once by someone from the crowd calling out that thanks to the last of those, grateful that his daughter now had health care available.
The problems, Obama said, “have been made worse” throughout the Great Recession, and he insisted that addressing economic issues needed to be job No. 1.
“Our focus has to be on the basic economic issues that matter most to you — the people we represent,” he said.
Read more in our daily News Update...