by Calculated Risk on 1/31/2010 10:43:00 PM

Note: earlier posts:

Weekly Summary and a Look Ahead

TARP Inspector General: Government Programs "risk re-inflating bubble"

Summers: "Statistical recovery and a human recession"

From the Financial Times: Obama plans $100bn jobs push

Robert Gibbs, ... called for a bill “somewhere in the $100bn range” ... Mr Obama championed the idea of a jobs bill in his State of the Union address last week – calling for $30bn for community bank lending to small businesses, a new small business tax credit and a tax incentive for all businesses to invest ...
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And from the LA Times: Obama pairs a push for jobs with proposed spending cuts

The details aren't clear, but this is smaller than the bill approved by the House of Representatives in December.