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October 4, 2011

Obama: Nation Is Not Better Off Than It Was Four Years Ago 
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In an interview with ABC News, President Obama said Monday he was,
“absolutely” the underdog in next year’s presidential election due
to the state of the economy. During the interview Obama was asked how he
would convince Americans that they are better off than they were four
years ago.

President Barack Obama: "I don't think that they're better off than they
were four years ago. They're not better off than they were before
Lehman's collapse, before the financial crisis, before this
extraordinary recession that we're going through. I think that what
we've seen is that we've been able to make steady progress to stabilize
the economy but the unemployment rate is still way too high."



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