British PM Brown pledges to create 100,000 jobs

LONDON (AP) – Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged Sunday to create 100,000 jobs through a public works program and said he would press banks to resume normal lending as Britain faces its sharpest economic downturn in decades. Britain is starting 2009 with rising unemployment, plummeting house prices and a drying-up of lending by cash-strapped banks. Brown’s government has pumped 37…

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