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

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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Steve Scalise
Republican · Louisiana

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Scalise highlights the low unemployment rate before the pandemic.

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