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On the recordApril 13, 2010
The unemployment rate jumped to 4.2 percent February 2008. February 2009, it had gone up to 8.7 percent. February 2010, it is 11.1 percent, it was.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby discusses rising unemployment rates in Alabama and their impact on education.

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