Weekly
Address: Ensuring 2014 is a Year of Action to Grow the Economy
January 11, 2014
Hi, everybody. Yesterday, we
learned that in 2013, our businesses created 2.2 million new jobs – including
87,000 last month. Our unemployment rate is the lowest it has been since
October 2008. And across our broader economy, there are signs of progress. Our
manufacturing and housing sectors are rebounding. Our energy, technology, and
auto sectors are booming. Thanks in part to the reforms in the Affordable Care
Act, health care costs now eat up less of our economy – over the past four
years, costs have grown at the slowest rate on record. And since I took office,
we’ve cut our deficits by more than half.
Thanks to the hard work and
sacrifice of the American people, our economy is growing stronger. But we know
we’ve got more work to do together. Our success as a country depends on more
than the success of our broader economy – it depends on the success of the
American people. It depends on your
ability to make ends meet, provide for your families, and, with a little hard
work, feel like you can get ahead.
So we’ve got to keep our economy
growing, and make sure more Americans have the opportunity to share in that
growth. We’ve got to keep creating jobs that offer new opportunity, and make
sure those jobs offer the wages and benefits that let you rebuild some
security. We’ve got more kids to educate, and families to get covered with
health insurance, and an immigration system to fix. And we’ve got to make sure
this recovery leaves no one behind.
This will be a year of action.
I’ll keep doing everything I can to create new jobs and new opportunities for
American families – with Congress, on my own, and with everyone willing to play
their part. And that action should begin by extending unemployment insurance
for Americans who were laid off in the recession through no fault of their own.
This vital economic lifeline helps people support their families while they
look for a new job. And it demands responsibility in return by requiring that
they prove they’re actively looking for work. But Republicans in Congress just
let that lifeline expire for 1.3 million Americans. And if this doesn’t get
fixed, it will actually hurt about 14 million Americans over the course of this
year. Earlier this week, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate took the first
steps toward making this right. But Congress needs to finish the job right
away. More than one million Americans across the country will feel a little
hope right away.
Working folks are looking for the
kind of stable, secure jobs that went overseas in the past couple decades. So
next week, I’ll join companies and colleges and take action to boost the
high-tech manufacturing that attracts the kind of good new jobs a growing
middle class requires.
Business owners are ready to play
their part and hire more workers. So next week, I’ll be joined by college
presidents as we lay out specific steps we can take to help more workers earn
the skills they need for today’s new jobs. Later this month I’ll host CEOs at
the White House to announce commitments we’re making to put more of the
long-term unemployed back to work.
And at the end of the month, in
my State of the Union Address, I will mobilize the country around the national
mission of making sure our economy offers everyone who works hard a fair shot
at opportunity and success. As Americans, that’s what we should expect. And
after everything you’ve done to recover and rebuild from crisis these past five
years – after all your hard work and sacrifice – that’s what you deserve.
Thanks, and have a great weekend. |
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