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Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Numbers

The people of the US apparently think that Republicans can handle the economy better than Democrats, and yet:
  • U.S. unemployment rate, October, 2009: 10.0%
  • U.S. unemployment rate, September, 2014: 5.9%
  • Federal deficit, fiscal year 2009: $1.414 trillion
  • Federal deficit, fiscal year 2014: $483 billion
Unemployment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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