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Joyce Beatty: “In fact, it is double the national unemployment rate, and I think most people--you included--would agree that is…”

On the recordJuly 14, 2015
In fact, it is double the national unemployment rate, and I think most people--you included--would agree that is unacceptably high.
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Joyce Beatty
Democratic · Ohio

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Beatty highlights the unacceptably high unemployment rate among African-Americans.

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