U.S. Has ‘Many More Months’ Before Full Recovery

President Barack Obama said it will take “many more months” for the U.S. to fully recover from the recession as employers continue to shed jobs.

The president said in his weekly address on the radio and the Internet that yesterday’s government report on the gross domestic product showed the recession was “even deeper than anyone thought” when he took office in January. The stimulus legislation passed by Congress in February and measures to stem home foreclosures have helped stem the slide, he said.

“Important steps that we have taken over the last six months have helped put the brakes on this recession,” Obama said. “But history shows that you need to have economic growth before you have job growth.”

Obama is putting the economy back at the forefront of his remarks to the public as polls show it remains the top concern of Americans. Next week he’s heading to Elkhart, Indiana, for an event focused on his economic policies. Obama said earlier this week that the U.S. “may be seeing the beginning of the end of the recession.”

The Commerce Department reported yesterday that the gross domestic product shrank at a 1 percent annual pace in the second quarter, less than forecast, after a 6.4 percent drop in the first three months of the year. The economy has lost 6.5 million jobs since the recession began in December 2007, and economists surveyed by Bloomberg this month forecast the jobless rate will exceed 10 percent by early 2010. The Labor Department is scheduled to release the July unemployment rate Aug. 7. The June rate was 9.5 percent
- SOurce Bloomberg.

It is food news for US bussinessman.. Hope US economy will recover soon coz there's more opportunity if US econ stabil..

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