07/11/2011
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"I've been working on sector partnership workforce training strategies for 4 years, along with Senator Olympia Snowe."
"It's hard to see the wisdom of a cut like that when the real unemployment rate really is close to 16 percent in this country."
"The cost to society of not doing that, I submit to you, will be 10, 20, 30 times that much."
"We maintained important investments in employment and training programs, worker protections, and the fight against the worst forms of child labor."