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On the recordJanuary 26, 2009
About 63 percent of people with disabilities are unemployed, who want to work and could work, but they are unemployed--63 percent.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin highlights the high unemployment rate among people with disabilities.

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