"We need to plug drug treatment work into job creation and housing support," says Bradbury.
Moderation and steady work on job creation, she tells constituents, is the path through the darkness of insecurity, not extremism and fear.
California's unemployment rate remains around 11 percent, but the state's residents still give Obama positive marks on his work on job creation, the economy and taxes.
But Mr Sarkozy insisted that it would reward families for hard work, encourage job creation, and also put more money in people's pockets.The surprising feature of France's recent economic upturn is that it has been entirely demand-driven.
Either way, the government program underscores the slow, expensive work of job creation at a time when the administration is trying to make rural development a part of its economic recovery policy.
But the idea that taxing the rich will slow economic growth and work against job creation doesn't stand up to inspection, say experts.
Meanwhile, as the government lobbies for the removal of sanctions on key industries, large construction projects for new ports and oil refineries are in the works, promising job creation and economic revitalisation in the provinces.
I sometimes respond by asking, "Isn't it remarkable that larger countries have more jobs?" This highlights the role of the work force in job creation, and that, in the long run, employment is largely determined by supply.
Further proposals, designed to get the unemployed back to work and stimulate job creation and investment, are due soon.
In a statement before the House vote, Karla Swift, president of the Michigan State A.F.L.-C.I.O., said the best way to help the state would be for labor and management to work together on job creation, training and education as they did in the auto industry.
