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By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer

updated 7:42 AM EDT, Thu October 2, 2014

Obama, pictured here in Chicago on the night of his first presidential election victory, is back in Chicago on Thursday.

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Chicago (CNN) -- President Barack Obama launches a midterm election effort Thursday designed to convince voters of a vigorous economic recovery that a majority still doubts.

At stake: the power to get anything done in Washington during the final quarter of his presidency.

During remarks at Northwestern University's business school here, Obama is set to deliver a "forceful case for America's strength and leadership at home," the White House said, casting the address as a domestic version of the president's call for an assertive U.S. foreign policy at last week's United Nations General Assembly.

With the U.S. locked in a battle with ISIS terrorists and staging a military operation to combat Ebola, Obama will argue for a strong economic footing at home to preserve global American leadership, a key part of his message in the final five weeks before the midterms.

While Obama can cite statistics that show a renewed U.S. economy, many Americans are still feeling battered by the downturn's legacy: stagnant wages and not enough full-time work. A CNN/ORC poll conducted in late September showed 56% of respondents didn't approve of how the president is handling the economy.

Obama has acknowledged that anxiety in the past "They don't feel it," he said frankly during last weekend's interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" and he plans to mention it again Thursday and again between now and election day.

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WASHINGTON In a striking public rebuke, the Obama administration warned Israel on Wednesday that plans for a controversial new housing project in east Jerusalem would distance Israel from "even its closest allies" and raise questions about its commitment to seeking peace with Palestinians.

The harsh criticism came just hours after President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House. Obama spokesman Josh Earnest said the president privately raised his concerns with Netanyahu though the two leaders made no mention of the matter in their public comments to reporters.

"This development will only draw condemnation from the international community," Earnest said. "It also would call into question Israel's ultimate commitment to a peaceful negotiated settlement with the Palestinians."

Netanyahu pushed back against the criticism, according to reporters traveling with him Wednesday, saying that people should have all of the information before making such statements. He also said that while Obama did raise the issue of settlements in their meeting, the discussion did not focus on specific cases.

An Israeli official, who wasn't authorized to discuss the matter and spoke on condition anonymity, confirmed the accuracy of Netanyahu's comments to his traveling press corps.

The new 2,500 unit project that stoked U.S. anger is contentious because it would complete a band of Jewish areas that separate Jerusalem from nearby Bethlehem. The U.S. has repeatedly criticized Israeli construction in east Jerusalem, casting it as damaging to efforts to secure an elusive peace accord with the Palestinians.

The White House also condemned what it called the recent occupation of residential buildings in Silwan, an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem where several hundred hard-line Israeli settlers have moved in recent years. Earnest called the move was "provocative" and said it would "escalate tensions at a moment when those tensions have already been high."

Appearing before reporters earlier, Obama and Netanyahu betrayed little of the U.S. displeasure projected by the White House spokesman, as well as officials at the State Department. While the two leaders have long had a tense relationship, each took a polite and cordial tone in their brief public remarks.

Still, areas of discord were evident, most notably Obama's frustration with Palestinian civilian deaths in during the summer war in Gaza and Israel's wariness of U.S.-led nuclear negotiations with Iran.

Sitting alongside Netanyahu, Obama said leaders must "find ways to change the status quo so that both Israel citizens are safe in their own homes, and schoolchildren in their schools, from the possibility of rocket fire but also that we don't have the tragedy of Palestinian children being killed as well."

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