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Gary Peters: “The unemployment rate now for the entire State is at 14.1 percent, the highest in the Nation.”

On the recordJune 18, 2009
The unemployment rate now for the entire State is at 14.1 percent, the highest in the Nation.
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

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Peters highlights Michigan's unemployment rate as the highest in the U.S.

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