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Obama stood on an East Room stage full of people without jobs.
“Our businesses have created more than eight million new jobs since we hit bottom,” Obama said while somber-looking unemployed Americans, invited to the event by the White House, served as his backdrop.
The president sought to dramatize the need for Congress to extend emergency unemployment insurance benefits.
 
	http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/08/us/politics/obama.html
 
	 
 
		 
 
		 
	 
 
		 
 
		 
	
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