The economy is growing again, but it is 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 are still not creating them as fast as we want.
Obama acknowledges the slow growth of the economy and the need for faster job creation.
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People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.
I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.
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