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Senate Hopes to Finalize Stimulus Package

By: Joel Brown

Updated: February 6, 2009

The labor department is expected to announce later this morning the nation's jobless rate is at a 17 year high at 7 and a half per cent. Against that backdrop the senate continues work on an economic stimulus package with a price tag of 937 billion dollars, a total that's too much for a bi-partisan group of moderates .

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