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ASSOCIATED PRESS: Unemployment challenges Obama?s economic narrative. ?Even as he touts his effort?

By Glenn Reynolds

ASSOCIATED PRESS: Unemployment challenges Obama’s economic narrative. “Even as he touts his efforts to put more Americans to work, President Barack Obama faces a public increasingly skeptical of his ability to bring jobs back to Main Street. . . . That’s a far different reality than what the administration predicted last year, when Obama rallied support for the $787 billion economic stimulus package. At the time, the White House said the massive infusion of taxpayer funds would keep the unemployment rate from topping 8 percent, though the administration later revised those estimates, saying the recession proved to be worse than it expected.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).