President Obama revealed several key details about his administration’s upcoming jobs plan in a fundraising memo sent out by his re-election campaign Thursday morning.
As Obama outlined in the memo, the jobs plan will be a bipartisan proposal that will “strengthen small businesses,” provide “needed breaks to middle-class families” and ultimately reduce the deficit.
“It’s been a long time since Congress was focused on what the American people need them to be focused on,” Obama wrote. “I’m asking lawmakers to look past short-term politics and take action on that [jobs] plan.”
The president is also expected to call for a one-year extension of the payroll tax cut on employees.
To date there are around 14 million US workers unemployed and millions more are working part-time jobs that are beneath their skill levels.
Obama will formally unveil the plan before a joint-session of Congress on September 8th.