I am not sure what the official count is, but I think we are still in the neighborhood of 8 million to 9 million unemployed people in our country officially, and that is the number one problem in the country as far as I am concerned that the Congress on both sides should be paying attention to.
Andrews emphasizes the high unemployment rate as a critical issue for Congress to address.
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