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Ron Johnson: “We're at 4.2 [percent unemployment rate].”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senate Finance Committee Discussion on Trade Deficits and Tariff Policies with Ambassador Greer

Published | Video Starts at 03:38

But do you want to onshore, for example, very high labor content products when by the way, we're pretty low unemployment rate. I mean when I went to college, you know, 5% was full employment. We're at 4.2 [percent unemployment rate]. I've been in manufacturing since, you know, late 70s. You couldn't hire enough people in manufacturing back then. Situations even got worse. (03:38–03:40)

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