Obama to outline new plan to help long-term unemployed - adviser

U.S. President Barack Obama smiles as he arrives to deliver remarks at a reception with U.S. mayors at the White House in Washington January 23, 2014. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce a new plan next week to help Americans who continue to struggle to find jobs even as the economy recovers from recession, his senior adviser, Dan Pfeiffer, said on Saturday.

Obama's efforts to help the long-term unemployed are part of an economic strategy he will lay out in his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday and expound upon during a four-state tour, Pfeiffer said in a mass e-mail from the White House.