Bill Clinton: “We have the lowest unemployment rate and welfare rolls in 30 years…”

On the recordDecember 9, 1999

We have the lowest unemployment rate and welfare rolls in 30 years, the lowest poverty rates in 20 years.

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Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the Community in West Memphis, Arkansas

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