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Thu 01 Jan 2010Obama prioritises jobs in speech
"Jobs must be our number one focus in 2010," President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress last night.
In a 70-minute speech that was interrupted some 65 times by applause from Democratic ranks, including many standing ovations, Mr Obama described plans to foster employment and help the middle classes, but spent little time on foreign policy issues.
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