Labor leaders said Tuesday that President Barack Obama remains committed to preserving tax cuts for middle class families and ensuring the wealthy pay more in taxes, outlining plans for a public campaign to pressure Republican lawmakers.

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The House and Senate barreled toward a collision Monday over some of the chief ingredients of President Barack Obama's recipe for reviving the economy, with tax increases and jobless benefit cuts awaiting millions of Americans on New Year's Day if the dispute is not resolved.

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The endgame at hand, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders expressed optimism Thursday at prospects for swift compromise to extend Social Security tax cuts, keep long-term jobless benefits flowing and avoid a partial government shutdown at midnight Friday.

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The coming year-end spending spree after so much debate over budget deficits shows just how hard it is to stem the government's flow of red ink.

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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin companies will get a small tax break for every new job they add under a bill signed Friday by Gov. Scott Walker. The deductions will be worth between $92 and ...

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By ?SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Unemployed people from Milwaukee urged Gov. Scott Walker to do more to create jobs on Tuesday, just hours before he is to deliver his first State of the State speech. Walker ...

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MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — Three Wisconsin lakeshore manufacturers are preparing for a presidential visit Wednesday. Fresh from his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama is due to land at Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay. He and ...

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By ?SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Legislature passed another tax cut on Tuesday, a day after Gov. Scott Walker warned that the state’s budget is in such bad shape that emergency cuts may be needed ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin state lawmakers are planning to vote on measures next week that would extend tax breaks to companies that relocate to Wisconsin and that would make it harder to approve tax hikes. The state Senate planned ...

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By Scott Bauer Associated Press Madison — On Wisconsin’s highways, work crews are still changing the road signs that feature his predecessor’s name. But in the state Capitol, Scott Walker is already breaking the speed limit. In the last few ...

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