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A slim majority of Americans don't think President Obama's recently unveiled job creation plan will slash unemployment, a new poll found.

According to the Bloomberg Poll released Wednesday, 51 percent of Americans don't think Obama's American Jobs Act will lower the country's unemployment rate.  The poll also found that 40 percent of Americans think Obama's jobs package has a chance of creating jobs and lowering the unemployment rate.

Additionally, the Bloomberg poll found that 62 percent of Americans do not approve of how Obama has handled the economy, while 33 percent approve.

The Bloomberg poll comes almost a week after Obama unveiled the new $447 billion job creation legislation, made up of new infrastructure spending, additional unemployment insurance benefits, and an extension of the employee payroll tax cut introduced earlier this year.

Since Obama has unveiled the legislation, he's urged Congress to take swift acti! on on passing it.

Pushing back on reports that Obama was willing to sign into law pieces of the jobs plan, on Tuesday the White House indicated that while Obama might prefer to pass the jobs package as one big item, he would also push to pass it in pieces if that was necessary.

The Bloomberg poll surveyed 997 adults.