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Yesterday the government released numbers that show first-quarter GDP at only 1.8 percent and jobless claims had risen for the third week in a row above 400,000.

America faces a jobs emergency, but nobody in Washington gives any evidence of giving a damn. Nobody talks about jobs. Nobody proposes jobs programs. Nobody fights for jobs. The debate is now between Democrats who do nothing to fight for jobs and Republicans whose budget would destroy jobs.

I agree with Karen Finney that there is an element of racism in the birther mania, and I have accused Donald Trump of running a campaign for birthers and bigots. But there is a far, far more important issue of jobs that lies at th! e heart of our discontent.

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