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Barack Obama: We're putting Americans back to work doing the work America needs done, and mostly in private sector jobs.

On the recordSeptember 4, 2009
We're putting Americans back to work doing the work America needs done, and mostly in private sector jobs.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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The President's Weekly Address

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