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Job growth ‘nowhere near robust enough,’ AFL-CIO says

By Sean Higgins
Published January 10, 2014 5:00am ET
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Job growth ‘nowhere near robust enough,’ AFL-CIO says
In reaction to Friday’s Labor Department statistics showing that the national employment rate has fallen to 6.7 percent, Thea Lee, AFL-CIO deputy chief of staff, released the following statement: The unemployment rate has finally dipped below 7 percent — more than four and a half years since the recession supposedly ended. But that fall was […]

In reaction to Friday’s Labor Department statistics showing that the national employment rate has fallen to 6.7 percent, Thea Lee, AFL-CIO deputy chief of staff, released the following statement:

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