Professor says Obama is ‘entrenched’ in economic efforts

YOUNGSTOWN — A political observer hopes the “second wave” of the Barack Obama presidency will carry him back to his campaign promises to reign in spending and govern in a bipartisan manner.

David Kozak, professor of public policy at Gannon University, said today that Obama so far has been entrenched in efforts to revive the economy. The early agenda has been rescuing banks and automakers and fighting the recessions with massive stimulus spending.

Kozak, who was at Youngstown State University as part of the business school’s Williamson Symposium, closely watches presidential elections and has been at all of the Democratic and Republican nominating conventions since 1984.

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