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Austan Goolsbee

Austan Goolsbee

Austan Goolsbee is the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. He also serves as chief economist of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Goolsbee is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He was an economic adviser to Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign.

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Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on June 5, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Over the last 15 months, we've added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. That's far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on June 5, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Manufacturing is having its best employment year in almost 15 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on September 12, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
John Boehner has called for "repealing the rest of the stimulus, which would raise taxes on 110 million middle class people."
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By Robert Farley • September 13, 2010
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on September 12, 2010 an interview on "This Week.":
Extending current tax rates would "average more than $100,000 a year to millionaires and even billionaires."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 13, 2010
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