Barack Obama may extend jobless aid
• PoliticoDoes this mean the pork filled stimulus is not working? Wheres the Jobs? President Barack Obama’s top economic officials said in interviews aired Sunday that the administration may support an extension in unemployment benefits. Some on Capitol Hill view that as a second stimulus package, although it is unlikely to be billed that way, because of rising concern about government spending. “We’ll do what’s necessary to make appropriate unemployment benefits available,” national economic adviser Lawrence Summers said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
