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Chuck Schumer: “The official unemployment rate remains unacceptably high, 9.5 percent. But if you are one of the 15 million Americans…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2010
The official unemployment rate remains unacceptably high, 9.5 percent. But if you are one of the 15 million Americans who are out of work, the unemployment rate feels more like 100 percent.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Schumer highlights the severity of unemployment in America.

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