Obama puts jobs at top of agenda

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama pushed job creation to the top of his agenda and vowed not to abandon his struggling healthcare overhaul after a political setback that raised doubts about his leadership.

With the economy still weak and unemployment at 10%, “jobs must be our number one focus in 2010”, Obama told Congress in his State of the Union address.

Obama – who inherited a financial crisis and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan –admitted he had made mistakes and that his first year in office had been a difficult one.