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Bob Latta: I think about the statement from the Secretary of Treasury in 1939 and what he said about what the spending had done.…

On the recordFebruary 4, 2009
I think about the statement from the Secretary of Treasury in 1939 and what he said about what the spending had done. When President Roosevelt was sworn into office in 1933, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we had a 24.9 percent unemployment rate.
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Bob Latta
Republican · Ohio

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Discussing historical unemployment rates during the Great Depression.

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