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Barack Obama: “The unemployment rate fell 0.2 percentage point to 8.5 percent, the lowest level since February 2009.”

On the recordJanuary 5, 2012
The unemployment rate fell 0.2 percentage point to 8.5 percent, the lowest level since February 2009.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Release - Statement on the Employment Situation in December

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