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kentuck

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Fri May 4, 2018, 09:11 AM May 2018

Unemployment rate for January 2017 was 4.8%

That was the last month of the Obama Presidency.

Today, 15 months later, the unemployment rate is reported at 3.9%. That is the lowest it has been since December of 2000 in the Clinton Administration.

62.8% of the population are employed.

Or, in Candidate Trump's terms, the real unemployment rate is about 35%...

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