**US President Barack Obama has outlined a number of proposals aimed at boosting employment, including winding up the $700bn (£425bn) US bank bail-out fund.**Mr Obama said the remaining money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (Tarp) could be used to facilitate lending to small businesses.
Speaking at the Brookings Institution think tank, he also called for tax cuts for small businesses.
The unemployment rate in the US currently stands at 10%.
The Tarp fund was set up in the last few weeks of the Bush administration as a bail-out package for US banks.
Mr Obama acknowledged that it was an unpopular.
With regards to small businesses, he proposed a one-year elimination of capital gains tax on new investments, and adding a new tax cut to encourage small business hiring in 2010.
In the last few years, small businesses had created 65% of new job growth, he said.