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Taxing the rich Obama style
Channel 4 News Washington Correspondent Matt Frei blogs on President Obama’s latest deficit-cutting plan.
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Channel 4 News Washington Correspondent Matt Frei blogs on President Obama’s latest deficit-cutting plan.
This is not class warfare – it’s math. President Obama unveils deficit cuts worth $3 trillion – including a new tax on millionaires.
America’s reverence for bombastic leaders is not something that Cool Hand Obama can change, writes Matt Frei.
President Obama sends his American Jobs Act to Congress, along with plans for budget cuts to pay for it all. And he warns his Republican rivals: the only thing stopping the plan is politics.
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President Barack Obama warns the United States is in a “national crisis” as he outlines a $447bn package of tax cuts and government spending in a bid to jump-start the sluggish US economy.
Channel 4 News’ US politics commentator Felicity Spector assesses the reaction to the President’s pitch for a $447bn package to boost the US economy
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With just days to go before the deadline to resolve the US debt crisis, President Barack Obama has warned that Congress is “running out of time” on reaching an agreement to avoid default.
President Barack Obama says the Republican approach to the US debt crisis is a “dangerous game” and calls for compromise as the US risks defaulting on its $14.3tr debt.
A secret network which looks and works like Facebook is being used by world leaders to chat in real-time. Channel 4 News reveals how it’s shaping the way G20 nations communicate in 2011.
Can the Republicans and Democrats agree on a deal to avoid what experts have branded a “huge financial calamity” for the United States? Felicity Spector takes a look.
France follows US President Barack Obama by outlining a phased withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. Gary Gibbon looks at the political strategies at play in ending the decade-long war.
US First Lady Michelle Obama tells young men and women in South Africa that they can measure up to the greatness of “lions” like Nelson Mandela by continuing to fight injustice around the globe.