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Article: For Obama, economy tied to social policy
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Article date:
- December 2, 2008
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WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama has made three things
clear about his plans to bring the economy back: He wants his
actions to be big and bold. He sees economic recovery as intimately
linked with economic and social reform. And he is bringing in a
gifted brain trust to get the job done.
Just three weeks after Election Day, Obama has already expanded
his authority by seizing on "an economic crisis of historic
proportions," as he described it Nov. 24, to call for a stimulus
package that will dwarf in size anything ever attempted by the
federal government.
But Obama is also using the crisis to make the case for larger