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DATE: SUNDAY, March 6, 1994                   TAG: 9403060082
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

CLINTON VOWS 2 MILLION NEW JOBS BY END OF '94

President Clinton, saying his economic strategy paid off in 2 million new jobs over the past 13 months, gave his administration a new target Saturday: "2 million more in '94."

"This administration took action, took responsibility," Clinton said in his weekly radio address. "And in the last 13 months, we've worked to change the economic course of our country [from] recession-weary to healthy and growing."

Clinton said this took the form of more investment, more jobs, a more level playing field in foreign trade, an attack on the budget deficit and new job training programs.

"When I took office as your president, I said our goal was to create 8 million jobs in four years," Clinton said. "Critics said it couldn't be done. But it can if we have the right economic strategy."

The president noted the Labor Department reported this week that the economy spun out 2,090,000 jobs in 1993, about 90 percent of them in the private sector.

Responding for Republicans, Rep. Bill Thomas of California focused mainly on Clinton's health care plan, which he asserted will add $70 billion to the federal budget deficit over five years.

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