President Obama to Speak on Jobs and Economy at Northwestern University

President Obama is set to deliver an economic address Thursday afternoon at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. The president has spent weeks consumed with international crises, but wants to let voters know he hasn't forgotten about the struggles at home. A CNN poll out this week found two-thirds of Americans said the economy would be their top issue when deciding their votes for Congress. They have just one month to make up their minds, and Obama plans to speak out more during that time on pocketbook concerns, including a jobs speech Friday in Indiana. Obama's challenge is to walk a delicate line between taking credit for an economic recovery without seeming to disregard continuing hard times. His aides say this speech isn't designed to lay out new policy ideas, but to explain what he's done to help the nation recover from the Great Recession. He also plans to acknowledge the reality that many Americans aren't feeling the recovery and argue that more needs to be done.