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Barack Obama: Over the next two years this plan will save or create 3.5 million jobs. More than 90 percent of these jobs will be in…

On the recordFebruary 23, 2009
Over the next two years this plan will save or create 3.5 million jobs. More than 90 percent of these jobs will be in the private sector, jobs rebuilding roads and bridges, constructing wind turbines and solar panels, laying broadband and expanding mass transit.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama outlines his economic stimulus plan and its potential job creation.

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