Obama rolls out jobs plan to inject $447 billion into economy
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama rolled out a new jobs plan Thursday designed to quickly inject $447 billion into the economy through a mix of tax cuts, construction projects and unemployment relief - an ambitious gambit meant to jolt the slumbering economy and answer skeptics who say he's been too complacent about the hardships borne by millions of unemployed.
US President-elect Barack Obama has moved to reassure the American public that his US$775 billion stimulus plan could create up to four million jobs, following the release of a government report showing more people were put out of work in the United States in 2008 than in any year since 1945.