President Obama said Monday that the jobs plan he will unveil next week will include ideas with bipartisan appeal.
Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, Obama said his proposals will "put more money in the pockets of working families and middle-class families."
The president's plan, to be unveiled after Labor Day, is expected to include tens of billions of dollars to renovate thousands of public schools and a tax break to encourage businesses to hire new workers, according to people familiar with White House deliberations.
Though he did not offer such specifics in his remarks, Obama said his proposals "are bipartisan ideas that ought to be the kind of proposals that everybody can get behind, no matter what your political affiliation might be."
