Rep. Scott to talk area job creation with Obama today

A day after Atlanta Federal Reserve President Dennis Lockhart said the country’s economic growth was too minimal to significantly curve unemployment, Rep. David Scott is set to meet with President Barack Obama today about jobs.

Scott, a Democrat representing Georgia’s 13th Congressional district and who has an , will meet with Obama at the White House at 2:30 p.m.  

The meeting comes less than two weeks after more than 15,000 people attended Scott's at the Georgia International Convention Center.

Georgia, like the rest of the country, has felt the effects of the deep recession. However, conditions declined later in Georgia than some other parts of the United States, and have been slower to rebound. The adjusted unemployment rate in Georgia is 10 percent, while the federal figure stands at 8.8 percent.

“I am honored to join our President in a special meeting at the White House today to discuss several critical issues facing our country,” said Scott in a press release. “I will personally congratulate President Obama for deploying the Navy Seals to kill Osama bin Laden and discuss the future of the war in Afghanistan.  I also look forward to discussing how we can create more jobs in Georgia and more incentives for companies to hire.”

Obama invited Scott to participate in today’s meeting along with a group of other members of Congress. Scott is a member of the House Financial Services and Agriculture Committees as well as the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

On Wednesday, Lockhart said that rising oil prices and a floundering housing market would continue to hamper U.S. economic growth. And while employment figures indicating the strongest private hiring sector in five years was good news, it wasn’t enough to “meaningfully reverse the more than eight million job losses suffered during the severe recession of 2008-2009.’’