Hours after the government announced the unemployment rate dropped below eight percent, President Obama touted the figures on the campaign trail as a sign his economic plans are working.“This morning we found out that the unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level since I took office. More Americans entered the work force. More people are getting jobs,” Obama said Friday at a campaign stop at George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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