Obama unveils $1000 tax cut and energy plan

"To get people spending again, 95 percent of working families will receive a $1,000 tax cut -- the first stage of a middle-class tax cut that I promised during the campaign and will include in our next budget," he said in a speech outside Washington.

He said his economic recovery plan would extend jobless aid and healthcare coverage for the unemployed and include proposals to double production of alternative energy in the next three years and improve energy efficiency for millions of homes.

(Reporting by Paul Eckert, editing by Patricia Zengerle)