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Limited in his ability to create jobs through direct spending, President Barack Obama is considering measures to encourage the private sector to free up its cash reserves and hire more workers to ease the nation's unemployment crush.

Audience outbursts briefly interrupted testimony Tuesday before a trio of Congress members in Las Vegas for a hearing about jobs and improving federal job training in a state saddled with the nation's highest unemployment rate.

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Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has announced an initiative to help small businesses with loans in an effort to increase job creation.

The next few years could be tough for staffing companies that profit from new hiring, but a few firms may prosper amid the tepid economic recovery, according to a report Monday from Citi Investment Research & Analysis.

Hamstrung by budget cuts and a tight debt ceiling, President Barack Obama is preparing a September jobs package with limited tools at his disposal to prime the economy and crank up employment.