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Amy Klobuchar: “So, how many--when you include, forgetting the marginally attached ones, if you include these people that want to work…”

On the recordOctober 1, 2009
So, how many--when you include, forgetting the marginally attached ones, if you include these people that want to work full-time, but are only working part-time, who have significantly reduced hours and significantly reduced money as a result, how--what's the unemployment rate, when you include them?
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Amy Klobuchar
Democratic · Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

Klobuchar questions the broader unemployment rate including part-time workers.

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