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Sam Brownback: “Proponents of the stimulus claimed that it would prevent the unemployment rate from rising above 8% or 9%, and yet it is…”

On the recordOctober 28, 2009
Proponents of the stimulus claimed that it would prevent the unemployment rate from rising above 8% or 9%, and yet it is already at 9.8%.
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Sam Brownback
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Brownback points out the failure of the stimulus to keep unemployment below projected levels.

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