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Statement from Senator Barack Obama on the Increase in Jobless Claims

October 23, 2008

Chicago, IL -- "The news that more Americans filed for unemployment benefits this week and that unemployment claims remain near a seven-year high is another urgent reminder of how badly American workers need a change from the disastrous economic policies of the last eight years. While Washington has done nothing to extend unemployment benefits and create new jobs and John McCain has no jobs plan whatsoever, I will immediately extend unemployment benefits, suspend the taxes on those benefits, and jumpstart job creation by giving small businesses emergency loans and tax credits for each new job they create," said Senator Barack Obama.

Barack Obama, Statement from Senator Barack Obama on the Increase in Jobless Claims Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/291325

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