Apr 28, 2016 ... “How people feel about the economy,” Obama told me, giving one part of his own  theory, is influenced by “what they hear.” He went on: “And if you have a political  party — in this case, the Republicans — that denies any progress and is  constantly channeling to their base, which is sizable, say, 40 percent of ...
Oct 11, 2012 ... Says Obama promised unemployment would never go above 8 percent. — Paul  Ryan on ... They said that, right now, if we just passed this stimulus, the economy  would grow at 4 percent. It's growing at 1.3 ... Some private forecasters anticipate  unemployment rates as high as 11% in the absence of action."
Jan 29, 2012 ... Vice President Joe Biden was eager to get moving. In office for only a month, the  Obama administration had already passed a monumental economic stimulus  plan to address the biggest downturn since the Great Depression. Now, at the  first implementation meeting in 2009, Biden — with a smudged Ash ...
Nov 4, 2010 ... William Galston assesses President Obama's first two years in office and  analyzes his policy accomplishments and significant political missteps. ... The  administration couldn't have gotten a larger stimulus bill, even if it had pushed  hard; nor could it have passed health reform with a public option, let alone ...
Aug 17, 2015 ... So even if Obama and Congress decided in the stimulus package to give all low- income Americans $200 extra per month for groceries, those people would still  be in poverty. But if that same money went to, say, unemployed people, some of  those people would be lifted out of poverty. This is just one way ...
Says that President Obama said if Congress passed the economic stimulus bill, "we would have unemployment at 8 percent and no higher. And it went higher."