President Obama Tells CNN Apple, WalMart Have Agreed to Boost
Hiring  President Obama Tells CNN Apple, WalMart Have Agreed to
Boost Hiring  Getty Images  President tells Jake Tapper that 300
companies have agreed to try to hire long-term unemployed
President Obama told CNN he is working with 300 companies,
including Apple, WalMart and Ford, to boost hiring of the long-
term unemployed.  Obama spoke to CNN's Jake Tapper in an
exclusive interview, days after his State of the Union Address.
The president, who is trying to go around a Congress that has
rejected his recent economic proposals, told Tapper he has gone
straight to the companies doing the hiring.  “What we have done
is to gather together 300 companies, just to start with,
including, some of the top 50 companies in the country,
companies like Walmart, and Apple, Ford and others, to say let's
establish best practices,” President Barack Obama told Tapper.
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