Labor and Minority Groups Pressure President Obama for Greater Job Creation
The NAACP, the AFL-CIO and the Hispanic rights group La Raza joined forces to pressure the Obama administration to do more to create jobs for a recession-plagued nation. The normally pro-Obama groups made it clear that they felt his $787 billion stimulus had favored big banks and corporations and had not gone far enough to create jobs. They called for significant increases in government spending for schools and roads and billions to provide fiscal relief for financially strapped state and local governments. In an attempt to avoid appearing to be an Obama critic, the NAACP’s Senior Vice President Hilary O....
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