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Richard Shelby: “The unemployment rate is 8.8 percent. When you consider the underemployed and those who have stopped looking for work…”

On the recordMarch 8, 2011
The unemployment rate is 8.8 percent. When you consider the underemployed and those who have stopped looking for work, the real unemployment rate is actually much higher, at 16.2 percent.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby highlights the true unemployment rate and economic challenges.

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