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ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) - He's been taking aim at Washington and at Wall Street. President Barack Obama has told an Ohio audience today that he'll "never stop fighting" for an economy that helps the hard-working, and not just those who are already well-off.

His appeal for Congress to pass a new job-creation bill came in a state where the jobless rate has gone up to 10.9 percent.

Obama says the bill needs to include tax breaks for small business hiring and for people who make their homes more energy efficient.

Neither one of those Obama-backed proposals was included in a jobs bill passed by the House in December. That $174 billion stimulus package is now before the Senate, where it faces a tougher road, in part because it is financed with deficit spending.