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Bill Clinton: “It is appalling that we have the highest growth rate in peacetime in our history, that we have an unemployment rate…”

On the recordJuly 6, 1999
It is appalling that we have the highest growth rate in peacetime in our history, that we have an unemployment rate below 5 percent for 2 years, and the unemployment rate on this hallowed reservation is almost 75 percent.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas
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presidency.ucsb.edu

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Remarks to the Community at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

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