Bush, Kerry Clash Over Latest Jobs Report
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President Bush hailed a slight decline in unemployment Friday as reason for his re-election, evidence the "economy is strong and getting stronger." Not so, said Sen. John Kerry, countering that the administration's term will end with a net loss of jobs.
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Democrat John Kerry, citing a newly commissioned study, said on Thursday that rising health care expenses have cost American jobs and President Bush has done nothing to solve the problem.
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ELYRIA, Ohio - President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, their animosity stirred by a contentious second debate, lit into each other over Iraq, jobs and debate performance on Saturday in critical battleground states...
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President Bush, under election-year pressure on the economy, said on Sunday that Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's plan to raise taxes on the wealthy would hinder the creation of jobs.
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US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and President George W. Bush traded accusations and criticism on Friday, with Kerry accusing the Bush administration of cronyism
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economic record and Kerry launching a fierce counter-attack on Republicans who &quot;can&#39;t tell the truth.&quot;. &quot;Our economy is growing and it&#39;s getting stronger,&quot; Bush said.
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CANONSBURG, Pa./POPLAR BLUFF  - Democratic  presidential nominee John Kerry launched one of his harshest  broadsides against the Iraq war on Monday and drew an angry  response from President Bush, in a clash that overshadowed  their attempts to focus on the economy.
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Democratic presidential nominee John  Kerry on Wednesday challenged President Bush's decisions before  and after the Iraq war and linked the $200 billion cost of the  war to economic woes in the United States.
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BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio - Good news, or bad? President Bush and Democrat John Kerry had differing takes Saturday about the vitality of the nation's jobs market - a question that's heating up this year's race for the White House.    Bush, campaigning in Ohio - a pivotal state that has lost tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs, says a new U.S...
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Hitting President Bush on the issues of jobs and the war in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is moving aggressively in the face of polls showing his candidacy lagging.    Campaigning in North Carolina, a state hurt by job losses, Kerry says he would end tax breaks for companies that outsource overseas...
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US President George W. Bush and his Democratic rival John Kerry traded barbs over Iraq on Monday, with Bush ridiculing Kerry for shifting positions on Iraq and Kerry accusing Bush of not telling the truth to the public.
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President Bush and John Kerry battled over the economy and jobs in a small corner of the campaign's most fiercely contested state Saturday as polls showed a post-convention surge for the Republican in the White House.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry launched a new attack on President Bush&#39;s economic record Wednesday in a speech in Detroit.
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President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry clashed on Thursday over the outlook for Iraq, with Kerry accusing Bush of living in "a fantasy world of spin" and the Bush campaign condemning Kerry's pessimism.
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President Bush, under election-year pressure on the economy, said on Sunday that Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry&#39;s plan to raise taxes on the wealthy would hinder the creation of jobs.
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President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry on Friday seized on a Labor Department report showing the US expanded payrolls by 144,000 and lowered the unemployment level to 5.4 percent
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President Bush charged on Friday that Democratic rival John Kerry fails to recognize reality on hot-button domestic issues from jobs and education to health care and Social Security.