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Barack Obama: “By almost every economic measure, America is better off than when I came here at the beginning of my Presidency.”

On the recordMay 31, 2016
By almost every economic measure, America is better off than when I came here at the beginning of my Presidency.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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