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John Garamendi: “It displays that the gold here are the Bush years. You can see the enormous number of losses of jobs, and right down…”

On the recordNovember 17, 2010
It displays that the gold here are the Bush years. You can see the enormous number of losses of jobs, and right down here, right here at the bottom, that's the start of the Obama administration in January of 2009, and each month thereafter, each quarter, we saw an improvement. We didn't see the jobs really coming back in the private sector until the last several months, but clearly, in the last several months, those jobs are there. Interestingly, the unemployment rate has not dropped because it is the government jobs that are now being lost but, nonetheless, a net gain in the jobs in the private sector.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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Nov 17, 2010

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Garamendi discusses job growth and unemployment trends during the Bush and Obama administrations.

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