{"id":1173,"date":"2011-02-26T10:41:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2011-03-15T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:43:19","slug":"obamas-new-economic-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/obamas-new-economic-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s New Economic Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/obama-official-photo1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1174\" title=\"obama\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/obama-official-photo1-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/obama-official-photo1-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/obama-official-photo1.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>President Barack Obama\u2019s newly formed jobs and competitiveness council  met for the first time to discuss ways to provide middle-class families  economic relief. President Obama implored the group of 22 business  leaders to find ways to bolster the economy by jumpstarting hiring and  encourage consumer spending. The committee, led by the CEO of General  Electric, plans to submit recommendations within 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama has expressed his concern that only a sector of the  country is recovering from the economic recession. While many private  sector companies have experienced an increase in profits and earnings in  2010, the American public, particularly middle-class and lower-class  Americans, is still suffering a high 9% unemployment rate. As the gap  between Americans widens, the recession continues, and Obama\u2019s bid for  reelection nears, the President tries to focus his efforts on long-term  economic stability. Whether he, even with a high-powered committee,  succeeds remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama\u2019s newly formed jobs and competitiveness council met for the first time to discuss ways to provide middle-class families economic relief. President Obama implored the group of 22 business leaders to find ways&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[682,683],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-2","tag-obama-jobs","tag-recession-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}