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White House Begins New Effort on Job Creation

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    FBN's Rich Edson on President Obama shutting down the White House Jobs Council.

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All right so for now the door after just four meetings President Obama closing a chapter on the jobs council but with twelve million people still out of work here.

How will -- administration.

Focus on job creation now let's go to protests and from our rich.

Well White House official says the administration will begin a new effort to work with the business community.

Republicans charge the expiring jobs council was nothing more than a facade designed to make voters think the president actually listen to businesses when it really had no interest in doing so.

The two year old council including business and labor leaders GE's Jeff Immelt chaired it and it met four times that the president.

The last time more than a year ago.

White House official tells Fox Business the recommendations of the jobs council were considered in the context.

Of the president's broader economic policy job creation agenda and while we didn't agree with every one of their ideas.

Most of their recommendations were acted on by the administration.

The White House sites Visa processing retrofitting government buildings with energy efficient technologies -- fast track review.

For infrastructure projects is council recommendations.

It put in place.

Though some of the council's recommendations are at odds with White House positions like -- call to allow US companies.

To avoid taxes on their overseas profits Republicans say the council served as nothing more than a political show.

One thing -- president could have done instead of wasting so much time blaming others.

Would have been to -- in the jobs council he created a -- so much fanfare.

It it yet done that for more than a year.

White House officials as the council only had a two year charter.

And that now expires back to you -- both sides every Texan thanks so much story.

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