Obama’s Job Plan: Work For 600,000

In a meeting today with the cabinet, the president will announce plans to tap into the $ 787 Billion stimulus package to create 600,000 jobs with 10 major project ready to be implemented in the next three months.

Since the stimulus package was adopted in February, the US economy has lost 1.6 million jobs to reach an overall unemployment rate of 9.4%, the highest since 1983. Read the L.A. Times coverage.