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On the recordOctober 26, 2015
If they lose these jobs, the unemployment rate is going to go from about 45 percent to north of 80 percent because they mine coal on the Crow Reservation.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin discusses the impact of coal job losses on the Crow Tribe's unemployment rate.

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