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Ben Bernanke: “We've only gotten about a million of them back so far. And that doesn't even account for the new people coming into the…”

On the recordDecember 5, 2010
We've only gotten about a million of them back so far. And that doesn't even account for the new people coming into the labor force.
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Ben Bernanke
Republican · South Carolina

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Bernanke discusses job recovery in the context of the economic outlook.

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