Steve Scalise: “The unemployment rate in February was 3.5 percent. That is the lowest…”

On the recordJuly 16, 2020

The unemployment rate in February was 3.5 percent. That is the lowest in over 50 years.

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Republican · Louisiana

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Scalise highlights the low unemployment rate before the pandemic.

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Steve Scalise: “The unemployment rate in February was 3.5 percent. That is the lowest in over 50 years.”