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Barack Obama: A stable and growing middle class is essential to the kind of economic growth that we need in the country.

On the recordJuly 23, 2013
A stable and growing middle class is essential to the kind of economic growth that we need in the country.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney

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