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President Begins Meetings With Leaders on Fiscal Cliff

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WASHINGTON D.C. -

President Obama is meeting with labor leaders today. It's part of a series of meetings the President will have this week to try and build a consensus about how to address the fiscal cliff. Today it's labor leaders, tomorrow it's business leaders and he'll meet with Congressional leaders on Friday. The fiscal cliff, as you've been hearing, is a series of tax increases and across the board spending cuts that many economists say could push the U-S into another recession.