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Fix schools, fix roads and bridges, improve infrastructure. there are a range of things we can do to help make the recovery stronger. and as we grow again, well see more job creation and not less. >> i want to ask you about housing, critical in the overall rebound of the economy. the administration had a big program to modify mortgages to be able to keep people in their homes. you had a congressional oversight committee this week say that the treasury department has lagged behind the pace of the...

>> were working to improve on those numbers, were trying to get congress to move to put in place a series of new tax incentives for hiring, business investment. trying to make sure states can keep teachers in the classrooms, fix schools, fix roads and bridges, improve infrastructure. there are a range of things we can do to help make the recovery stronger. and as we grow again, well see more job creation and not less. >> i want to ask you about housing, because this is an important area, critica...

Package by money that went to the state and to the city to fix roads. as barbara points out in the story, a stimulus is a short-term fix. i mean, what we really need to do is increase the demand. the demand for new products, the demand for new jobs. a stimulus doesnt necessarily do that. its a brief shot in the arm. i think its helpful. i think it can tide us over. in the long term -- look, weve lost 8 million jobs since 2007. wie wed have to create 200,000 new jobs a month to get back to that i...

Taliban are using afghan civilians as human shields. trying to bait afghan and american forces into firing on the afghan civilians. that they are there to protect and to liberate. now, we are also getting reports that as the marines and afghans move into the city, they are consolidating the gains they have made the past few days, ration the afghan flag on a key market in the city of marjah. declaring that the afghan government is there and that they are there to stay. were also hearing reports t...

Wealth can help you build new schools, fix roads, improve your community and create jobs, jobs like you have never seen before, all you want is the freedom to use them, and thats been the problem, its been very difficult, hasnt it? it will be a lot easier now under the trump administration, for too long the federal government has put up restrictions and regulations that has put this new wealth out of reach, just totally out of reach. its been really restricted, the development itself has been re...

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Subsidies for oil companies and private jets but end, say, federal help for grad students college loans. you know, those grad students, i hate how they caused the recession. as if theres enough skin we can take out of grad students hides to get us out of this recession. this very hard time we are living through is sometimes called the great recession, a name meant to distinguish it from but relate it to a harder time in our history, the great depression of the 19 30z, franklin delano roosevelt w...