White House White Board

White House White Board: Tax Cuts, Unemployment Insurance & Jobs

Posted by Jesse Lee on December 9, 2010 at 7:00 AM EST

In this edition of White House White Board, Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, discusses the President’s compromise framework on tax cuts, unemployment insurance & job creation.

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White House White Board: CEA Chair Austan Goolsbee Explains the Tax Cut Fight

Posted by Jesse Lee on September 30, 2010 at 5:30 AM EST

Today we're trying out something new -- White House White Board, in which one of our key players on the White House team will cut through the political back-and-forth you hear every day and break down an issue affecting American families into simple, understandable terms.  Today, Austan Goolsbee, the new Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers here at the White House, tackles the tax cut fight and what it means that Congressional Republicans are "holding middle class tax cuts hostage" as the President has said: