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Maria Cantwell: “To Americans who are standing in the unemployment line, however, the January data reveal a recovery that remains…”

On the recordFebruary 25, 2004
To Americans who are standing in the unemployment line, however, the January data reveal a recovery that remains woefully inadequate. If President Bush really cares about the nation's unemployed, as he said Sunday, he will endorse congressional efforts to enact a badly needed extension of federal unemployment benefits. The January jobs report was encouraged in the context of the current recovery, but it was pathetic in the context of history.
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

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Addressing job loss and the inadequacy of economic recovery during a speech.

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