In four historic years, America has been given great tasks and faced them with strength and courage.

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In the four years prior, there had not been a historic collapse in economic growth that made the base year of 1878 low, as was the case in 1933.

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But, the consequences of continued slow growth and high unemployment fall most heavily on the least skilled and those who lose their job or the opportunity for a better life, to say nothing of the broad middle class that has suffered a historic decline in median income during the past four years.

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