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Published 03 June, 2011 08:30:00 Here and Now
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The economy continues to be sluggish picking up jobs in the financial recovery. Could unemployment tank Obama's quest for reelection?


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Americans have been calling on politicians to help create jobs, but unemployment remains somewhere around 9 percent. Binyamin Appelbaum financial reporter for the New York Times talks with Here and Now about how unemployment could affect the 2012 election.

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