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Lisa Murkowski: “Unemployment would rise from where we are now at 6.2 percent to an unacceptable level of 8.9 percent.”

On the recordJune 18, 2013
Unemployment would rise from where we are now at 6.2 percent to an unacceptable level of 8.9 percent.
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Murkowski highlights the potential unemployment increase due to military base downsizing.

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