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On the recordMay 31, 2012
The economy's growing again, but it's not growing as fast as we want it to grow. Our businesses have created almost 4.3 million new jobs over the last 27 months. But, as we learned in today's jobs report, we're still not creating them as fast as we want.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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President Obama discusses the current state of the economy and job creation in light of disappointing unemployment numbers.

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