In Bushâs Legacy, Weak Economy Moves Up Front
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President Bushâs final State of the Union address will focus on the economy, as Mr. Bush himself suggested Friday during a short preview of the speech at a Congressional Republican retreat.
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In historical terms, the wave of departures from President Bush&#39;s first-term Cabinet and his choices to replace them for his second are a narrative of continuity rather than change.
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President Bush has been saying that the US economy has ''turned the corner.&quot; Democratic presidential candidate Senator John F. Kerry, in the wake of this month's poor jobs report, quipped that it was more like a U-turn.
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George W. Bush is in line to be the first president since World War II to preside over an economy in which federal government employment rose more rapidly than private sector employment.
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The American economy has failed to give George Bush a pre-election boost as figures out yesterday showed slower than expected growth in the third quarter of the year.
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Voters are often told that the countryâs economic health depends on pulling the right lever. But a new administration often brings only moderate economic policy changes.
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The booming economy that President Bush paints is a far cry from the worrisome one increasingly portrayed by Democratic presidential candidates and party leaders. To them, there are worker insecurities, stagnant wage growth and soaring costs for health care and college.
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Analysts said President Bushâs plan to aid troubled homeowners facing foreclosure fell short of the broad reforms needed to help people meet mortgage payments.
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If President Bush is likely to respond to recession fears much as he did on entering office in 2001, but this time around Democrats are planning to push back.
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An upbeat President Bush set forth an aggressive agenda for the next four years, but he also must deal with the realities his predecessors faced &#151; second terms tend to be disappointments, often marred by scandals, infighting and lackluster performances.
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President George W. Bush and leaders of the Democratic-led Congress vowed on Tuesday to move quickly to work out the details of a $150 billion stimulus package for the U.S. economy, as fears of a recession prompted a sell-off in global financial markets.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  - President George W. Bush on Friday said there were troubling signs that the economy is weakening and urged Congress to move on a stimulus package to help prop up the economy, which has been hit hard by a housing slump and credit crisis.
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This is one in an occasional series of stories leading up to November&#39;s election on economic issues being put forth by President Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John F. Kerry.
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President Bush is raising the bar on expectations, with a second-term agenda to transform the United States and the world. But early reviews on his evolving legacy are as mixed as the nation is divided politically.
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President Bush, in a bitter showdown with Congress over Iraq, has crept up a speck from an all-time low in his job approval rating. But his standing is the weakest of any second-term president at this point in 56 years.
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George W. Bush likes to put up a show of administration unity for the world but his presidency has been marked by divisions on issues ranging from Iraq, to the US economy and the global environment.
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WASHINGTON - Democrats took aim at President Bush's economic record after release of a Census Bureau report showing the ranks of the uninsured and the impoverished grew in 2003 for the third consecutive year while incomes stayed level.    The president's surrogates came to his defense, noting that the numbers failed to reflect more recent economic gains, such as the addition of 1.5 million jobs over the past 12 months, or the full effect of the Bush-backed tax cuts...