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Richard Shelby: “The real unemployment rate would be 14.9 percent.”

On the recordMarch 6, 2012
The real unemployment rate would be 14.9 percent.
Said by
Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Shelby presents a higher estimate of unemployment when including discouraged workers.

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