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Barbara Boxer: “The unemployment numbers in construction, as bad as they are, which is, depression numbers would have even been worse if…”

On the recordJanuary 25, 2011
The unemployment numbers in construction, as bad as they are, which is, depression numbers would have even been worse if we didn't have the stimulus.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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Boxer highlights the necessity of the stimulus in preventing worse unemployment in construction.

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