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Barack Obama: The unemployment rate has decreased by 1.0 percentage point, as a result of growing employment.

On the recordNovember 1, 2012
The unemployment rate has decreased by 1.0 percentage point, as a result of growing employment.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Release - Statement on the Employment Situation in October

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