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Obama, In Tonight's State Of The Union, Will Focus On Middle Class

By Krishnadev Calamur
Published January 20, 2015 at 5:48 AM CST
President Obama speaks at Pellissippi State Community College, in Knoxville, Tenn., on Jan. 9. Obama is turning to his biggest television audience of the year to pitch tax increases on the wealthiest Americans and put the new Republican Congress in the position of defending top income earners over the middle class.
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President Obama speaks at Pellissippi State Community College, in Knoxville, Tenn., on Jan. 9. Obama is turning to his biggest television audience of the year to pitch tax increases on the wealthiest Americans and put the new Republican Congress in the position of defending top income earners over the middle class.

President Obama delivers his and is expected to focus on the state of the economy and its impact on the middle class.

U.S. has been brisk and the unemployment rate has fallen to . But economic challenges remain, including, , for white working-class voters "who haven't seen enough progress economically in their own lives."

The president is expected to discuss these issues tonight in front of the Republican-majority Congress. As The Washington Post , Obama's "tone and tenor" since the GOP trounced Democrats in the midterm elections in November "have been anything but conciliatory."

The New York Times that the president will likely use the speech "to effectively declare victory over the economic hard times that dominated his first six years in office and advocate using the nation's healthier finances to tackle long-deferred issues like education and income inequality."

The speech starts at 9 p.m. ET and will be covered live by NPR as well as by the major TV broadcast networks. Check back in this space for updates.

And of guests who will be seated with first lady Michelle Obama.

NPR's reporters will be covering the speech, and here is some of our related coverage:

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Krishnadev Calamur
Krishnadev Calamur is NPR's deputy Washington editor. In this role, he helps oversee planning of the Washington desk's news coverage. He also edits NPR's Supreme Court coverage. Previously, Calamur was an editor and staff writer at The Atlantic. This is his second stint at NPR, having previously worked on NPR's website from 2008-15. Calamur received an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri.
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