With the job market stuck in neutral, the Obama administration is moving toward using the revenue from expiring tax cuts for the wealthy to finance about $35 billion of tax cuts for small businesses and workers, administration and congressional officials said Friday.

The employment report for August, which showed a slight uptick in unemployment and anemic private-sector job creation, put new impetus on the White House to produce a labor-policy response. President Barack Obama said he would be proposing additional economic measures next week, when he speaks Monday at a union picnic in Milwaukee and in a Wednesday address in Cleveland.

“We need to take further steps to create jobs and keep the economy growing, including extending tax cuts for the middle class and investing in the areas of our economy where the potential for job growth is greatest,” the president said in the Rose Garden Friday, flanked by his economic team.