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Obama won’t extend jobs council’s mission

WASHINGTON — President Obama is letting his jobs council expire, cutting off one source of input from business leaders while unemployment remains stubbornly high.

Obama formed the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness in January 2011, when unemployment was about 9 percent. It’s now 7.8 percent, though more than 12 million people are out of work.

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Obama's Jobs Council was just a BIG SHOW, His JOBS Act was never meant to create any Jobs. And notice that the Globe doesn't have any complaints.

Jobs, what's that, not important anymore in this country, we have much bigger problems to deal with. Immigration, gun control. the government can support all of us, after all, we have prining presses.

But he is setting up councils on gay marriage and climate change