Bush confident US economy will recover

2008-05-03 HKT 09:06

President George W. Bush has acknowledged that the latest United States jobs data show the economy is not as robust as the government would like it to be. Official figures show the number of people without jobs rose by 20,000 last month - the fourth consecutive monthly rise. But Mr Bush said he was confident that the country would come through the current difficulties, as it had before, boosted by a recent package of tax rebates.

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