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On the recordOctober 1, 2009
So this person I mentioned in my opening statement, who had sent out 60 resumes to 60 places and gone to all these interviews, if, at some point, she just says, I can't do this anymore, and takes a month off from looking, she wouldn't even be included in the unemployment rate?
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Amy Klobuchar
Democratic · Minnesota

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Klobuchar highlights how discouraged job seekers are excluded from unemployment statistics.

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