Obama in Columbus: Recovery to date is not enough

COLUMBUS (AP) — President Barack Obama focused attention today on construction jobs created by the federal stimulus law while acknowledging the grinding toll the slow-to-rebound economy has taken.

"I'm under no illusion that we're where we need to be yet," Obama said during an hourlong visit to the capital of a state he won in 2008 with 51 percent of the vote.

The event was a groundbreaking for the 10,000th road project paid for by stimulus money, and it gave the president an occasion to leave Washington and promote progress on jobs.

Flanked by workers in hard hats and yellow safety vests, Obama stood at a lectern in the middle of a street and cited increasing signs of economic vitality, including evidence that businesses are starting to hire again. But he said that's not enough.