U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is looking to move forward in the coming weeks, not months, on several options to boost job creation, a senior White House official said on Friday. Skip related content
Obama earlier listed the ideas under discussion, citing additional investments in roads and bridges, incentives to encourage families and businesses to make buildings more energy efficient, new tax cuts for businesses to create jobs, extra steps to increase the flow of credit to small businesses and efforts to promote U.S. exports.
(Reporting by Alister Bull; Editing by Matt Spetalnick)




WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.