cnn.com - 11/22/2008
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President-elect Barack Obama talks about his economic plan Saturday on a video on his Web site.
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... of life in many places. Thanks to dwindling supplies and burgeoning populations, the Middle East and much of North Africa now have one-third as much water per capita as in 1960. Israel has already exploited 95 percent of the available water supply in the country, and uses it efficiently; there is no new supply to tap. In the Gaza Strip, seawater is contaminating groundwater supplies as fresh water is pumped out to supply the growing population.
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Obama outlines job-creation plan
(CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday ...
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The good news is that Obama wants to push fiscal stimulus ala public investment, but this seems way too conservative: American workers will rebuild the nation's roads and bridges, modernize its schools and create more sources of alternative energy, creating 2.5 million jobs by 2011, Obama said in the weekly Democratic address, posted on his Web site. With the employment-population ratio at 61.8% and population at 234.6 million, creating 2.5 million new jobs NOW would still leave the employment-population ratio below 63%. Over the next ...
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