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Barack Obama: “More than half of the new jobs over the next decade will require some form of higher education.”

On the recordAugust 20, 2012
More than half of the new jobs over the next decade will require some form of higher education.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Campaign Rally in Reno

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