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Passage Passage 2
in these passages, Presidents Ronald Reagan and
Barack Obama present solutions for dealing with a
recession A recession is defined as a length of time
when the economy slows, businesses struggle and
unemployment rates rise
Radio Address to the Nation
on the Program for Economic
Recovery-April 3, 1982
by President Ronald Reagan
...Those aren't oasy times for a great
many of you. Yesterday we wore told that
unemployment has gone up anothor
two-tonths of 1 porcent-equal to the
unemployment rate wo had in 1975 as wo
bogan to come out of that recession.
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Which sentence from Passage 2 MOST
conflicts with the views expressed in
Passage 1?
"But until we see a trend of good, sustainable
job creation, we will be relentless in our
efforts to put America back to work
We're making historic investments in science
and in the clean energy economy that will
generate and keep the jobs and industries of
the future right here in America.
"And this year, I am as hopeful and as
confident as ever that we're going to rise to
this moment.
"And the second was that the road to
recovery would be long and sometimes
bumpy.
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