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Barack Obama: It will take sustained, robust GDP growth to bring the unemployment rate down substantially.

On the recordOctober 28, 2009
It will take sustained, robust GDP growth to bring the unemployment rate down substantially.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Release - Statement on GDP from CEA Chair Christina Romer

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