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President Obama believes it is appropriate to look broadly at the state of the U.S. economy and the path the country should take, the White House said Monday.
Beginning this week, Obama will lay out a U.S. economic-bolstering agenda in a series of speeches ahead of fiscal battles the administration expects this fall with the House. The first, billed as a major economic policy speech, will be at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., Wednesday, where he spoke in 2005.
“What is absolutely true is that we have come a long way since the depths of the Great Recession,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said during a media briefing. “[But] we have more work to do. And what the president hopes to do is talk about how we can do that together, how we can do it in a way that ensures not just that jobs are created in the near term, but that we are investing in our future.
Although asked repeatedly about what Obama would say, Carney declined, saying he didn’t want to get ahead of the president’s message.
Carney said the speeches would take a forward-looking view, not what can happen in the next few weeks, months or even years.
