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On jobs, Obama calls 2014 ‘a year of action’

/ 05:49 AM January 12, 2014

President Barack Obama winks at Kiara Molina, 14, of Harlem, with the Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy, as she introduces him as “my President,” at an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, where the president spoke about the Promise Zones Initiative. The Promise Zone Initiative is part of a plan to create a better bargain for the middle-class by partnering with local communities and businesses to create jobs, increase economic security, expand educational opportunities, increase access to quality, affordable housing and improve public safety. AP

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is calling 2014 “a year of action” for creating jobs and economic opportunities for American families.

In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the first step is for Congress to extend unemployment insurance for those without work.

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The president also points to a new initiative to boost high-tech manufacturing and other steps he plans to announce next week to put people back to work.

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Obama’s message comes after the government reported just 74,000 new jobs in December and a dip in unemployment that’s fueled by people giving up their search for work.

In the Republican address, Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi is pushing for Obama’s health care law to be repealed or defunded. He says the nation should go back to the drawing board.

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