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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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