THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Happy Friday. I thought I’d take some questions, but first, let me say a few words about the economy.This morning, we learned that our economy created over 200,000 new jobs in July. That’s on top of about 300,000 new jobs in June. So we are now in a six-mont

President Obama: Good afternoon, everybody. I&#39m horning in on Josh&#39s time just for a hot second. As we learned last week, America&#39s economy added 215,000 jobs in March. That means that our businesses extended the longest streak of private sector job creation on record – 73 straight months,

Elkhart, Indiana was the first town I visited as President. I&#39d been on the job for three weeks, and we were just a few months into the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. Elkhart was hit harder than most. Unemployment there peaked at nearly twenty percent shortly after my visit. Nearly one i

Hi, everybody.As President, my top priority is rebuilding an economy where everybody who works hard has the chance to get ahead. That's what I'll spend some time talking about on Monday, at the White House Summit on Working Families.We're bringing together business leaders and workers to talk about

Because of you, we&rsquove been able to get a lot done over the last 20 months. Together, we&rsquore jumpstarting a new American clean energy industry -- an industry with the potential to generate perhaps millions of jobs building wind turbines and solar panels, and manufacturing the batteries for t