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Home • Progress on Creating Jobs Tout
President Obama's Progress on Creating Jobs
  • 5.6 million private sector jobs created in the last 33 months
  • 532,000 manufacturing jobs created since January 2010
  • Sign 18 tax cuts to help small businesses expand and hire
  • Rescue the American auto industry from collapse
  • Keep 400,000 teachers in the classroom
  • Provide tax credits to businesses that hire unemployed veterans
  • Put construction workers back to work repairing roads, bridges and railways
  • Open new markets for American exports to help American businesses hire and grow
  • Keep police officers, firefighters and other first responders on the job
  • Reform unemployment to train job seekers with the skills they need to find a good job
  • Make progress toward doubling exports between 2009 and 2014 to support 2 million American jobs
  • Do more to create jobs and help the middle class
President Obama Can't Do This Alone, Congress Must Act
Read more about what President Obama
has done to help the economy