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On the recordSeptember 12, 2011
The impact, reducing the unemployment. If you were to drop unemployment from 9.1 to, say, 8.6, can you give us some idea of what impact that would have on the deficit?
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Jim Clyburn
Democratic · South Carolina

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Clyburn questions the correlation between unemployment reduction and deficit impact.

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