The slow pace of job re-creation is primarily the result of consumers and companies trying to rebuild their finances.

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Now is the time to jump-start job creation, re-start lending, and invest in areas like energy, health care, and education that will grow our economy, even as we make hard choices to bring our deficit down.

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But if you do your research, carefully analyze the results, find strengths, identify hurdles and seize upon opportunities, building clusters will aid job creation, re-purpose idle assets, and spark business opportunities that are less susceptible to off-shoring.

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It also provides a crucial glimpse into the prospects for the re-ignition of job creation and American prosperity.

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But by 1984 job creation was on a roll and Mr Reagan romped to re-election.

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But, look, it is not an inconsequential deal to propose a budget that cuts as substantially as it does in targeted areas so that the federal government lives within its means in order to be able to continue to invest in the future, because you have to have economic growth, you have to have job creation if we're going to address this overall long-term problem.

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Because job creation and investing in our communities aren't competing priorities -- they're complementary.

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But Republicans, who back a job-creation agenda focusing on loosening business regulations, say Mr Obama's jobs bill is a re-run of his 2009 stimulus.

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