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Barack Obama: “Small businesses create two out of every three jobs in America.”

On the recordFebruary 21, 2011
Small businesses create two out of every three jobs in America.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in a Discussion at the New Media Session of the Winning the Future Forum on Small Business in Cleveland

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