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Barack Obama: “Reducing unemployment, which disproportionately burdens the African-American community at 16.2%, remains a top priority…”

On the recordJuly 20, 2011
Reducing unemployment, which disproportionately burdens the African-American community at 16.2%, remains a top priority for me and my Administration.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Readout of the President's Meeting with Marc Morial

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