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Rick Scott: “Our national unemployment rate's now higher than the…”

Featuring: Rick Scott, Republican | U.S. Senate, Florida

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Senator Rick Scott joins Florida Live

Published | Video Starts at 01:09

And unfortunately, we've two things or sort of three things. Number one is we've lost jobs the last 12 months. That's number one. Number two is Our national unemployment rate's now higher than the national numbers. And number three, we've got 500,000 people unemployed in the state. And so that's 500,000 people that, you know, need a job, need to be, you know, they want, people want to be self sufficient. (01:09–01:17)

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