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Article: Economic Policy Is Working, Obama Says; Administration Says Recovery Effort Has Moved From Rescue Stage to Rebuilding
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- The Washington Post
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- August 4, 2009
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In public appearances this week, President Obama will attempt to
regain the initiative on the economy after what one senior
administration official called several "rocky" weeks of declining
support for the president and his major policy efforts.
He and his Cabinet advisers will fan out across several swing
states to declare that the recovery has moved from the rescue stage
to rebuilding, even though unemployment continues to increase and
his advisers have been making contradictory statements about
whether the administration may need to consider a tax increase for
middle-class Americans.
Obama's insistence that the first phase of the recovery is over
amounts to a strong defense of his ...