English subtitles for clip: File:2014-05-03 President Obama's Weekly Address.webm

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The President: Hi, everybody.

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My number one priority
as President

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is doing whatever I can to
create more jobs and opportunity

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for hardworking families.

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And yesterday, we learned
that businesses added

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273,000 jobs last month.

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All told, our businesses
have now created

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9.2 million new jobs over 50
consecutive months

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of job growth.

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But we need to keep going
- to create more good

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jobs, and give
middle-class

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families a sense of security.

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And I want to work with
Congress to do it.

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But so far this year,
Republicans

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in Congress have blocked or
voted down every serious idea

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to create jobs and strengthen
the middle class.

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They've said "no" to
raising the minimum wage,

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"no" to equal pay for
equal work, and "no"

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to restoring the unemployment
insurance they

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let expire for more than two
million Americans looking

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for a new job.

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That's not what
we need right now.

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Not when there are still
too many folks out

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of work and too many families
working harder

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than ever just to get by.

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That's why, in my State of
the Union Address,

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I said that in this Year of
Action, whenever

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I can act on my own to create
jobs and expand opportunity

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for more Americans, I will.

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And since January, I've
taken more than

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20 executive actions
to do just that.

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I acted to raise more
workers' wages

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by requiring that workers on
new federal contracts earn

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a fair wage of at least
$10.10 an hour -

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and as long as Republicans in
Congress refuse to act,

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I'll keep working with
cities, states,

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and businesses to give more
Americans a raise.

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I acted to encourage more
pay transparency

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and strengthen enforcement of
equal pay laws,

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so that more women have the
tools they need

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to earn fair pay.

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And I'm modernizing
regulations to make

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sure that more Americans who
work overtime

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get the pay that they've earned.

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I've launched new hubs
to help attract more

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high-tech manufacturing
jobs to America -

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and ordered a reform of job
training programs

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to make sure more Americans can
earn the skills that

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employers need right now.

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I've brought together
business leaders

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to help us connect more
classrooms to high-speed

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internet, and give more of the
long-term

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unemployed a better shot at
finding a job.

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Each of these steps
will make a difference.

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You can check out the full
list at whitehouse.gov.

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But we could do a lot more
if Republicans

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in Congress were less interested
in stacking the deck in favor

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of those at the top, and
more interested in growing

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the economy for everybody.

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They've now voted more
than 50 times

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to take apart the Affordable
Care Act -

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imagine if they voted 50 times
on serious jobs bills.

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That's why I'm going to
take action

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on my own wherever I can.

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To grow our economy from
the middle-out,

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not the top down.

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To give every American who
works hard a chance

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to get ahead.

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That's what this Year of
Action is all about,

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and that's what I'm going
to keep fighting for.

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Thanks, and have
a great weekend.