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“When we passed the recovery act, the stimulus, that was very controversial at the time, and that continues to be criticized by the other party, despite the fact that unemployment’s now below 5 percent and we avoided a great depression. Thanks, Obama.”
– President Barack Obama joked during his SXSW Interactive keynote
This article appears in March 18 • 2016.
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