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White House: Jobs package to have direct, quick impact

WASHINGTON | Tue Sep 6, 2011 5:05pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The jobs package that President Barack Obama will unveil this week will have a "direct, quick and positive impact" on the economy and job creation, the White House said on Tuesday.

"We need to do things that will have a direct impact in the short-term to grow the economy and create jobs and the president will put forward proposals that will do just that," White House spokesman Jay Carney told a news briefing.

Obama will present his jobs plan to a joint session of Congress on Thursday evening.

(Reporting by Laura MacInnis and Alister Bull; Editing by Eric Beech)
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