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Barack Obama: “The truest measure of progress would be whether or not we were creating jobs.”

On the recordMay 6, 2010
The truest measure of progress would be whether or not we were creating jobs.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks on the National Economy

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