Barack Obama: “We have workers in need of a job and a country that's in need of…”

On the recordJuly 21, 2011

We have workers in need of a job and a country that's in need of rebuilding, and if we put those two things together we can make real progress.

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Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Town Hall Meeting and a Question-and-Answer Session in College Park

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