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Obama Team Maps Out Unemployment

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Will be 8.2 percent by 2012.

Is an 8.2 percent unemployment rate low enough to get President Obama reelected? He better hope so, as his team is predicting that will be the rate in 2012, when he’s up for reelection. According to the administration’s projections, unemployment will remain well over 6 percent until 2015. A 9.2 percent rate is predicted for 2011.

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