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Jimmy Carter: “The unemployment rate today at 7.8 percent is higher than any time between the Great Depression and the inauguration of…”

On the recordAugust 30, 1976
The unemployment rate today at 7.8 percent is higher than any time between the Great Depression and the inauguration of Gerald Ford.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Remarks at a Meeting of the AFL-CIO General Board in Washington, DC

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