And I want you to know that so long as there are Americans who cannot find work I will be fighting for jobs, and so long as the gap between the wealthiest few and everybody else keeps on growing I will be fighting for opportunity.

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More work to do for the workers I met in Galesburg, Illinois, who are losing their union jobs at the Maytag plant that's moving to Mexico, and now are having to compete with their own children for jobs that pay seven bucks an hour.

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And so I will continue to fight for the American Jobs Act so that we can put our people back to work.

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That's why I have suggested, you know, putting money immediately into what I call green-collar jobs, you know, making it possible for us to put people to work, weatherizing homes and installing solar panels, because that will give us a jumpstart on what we need to be doing as we try to retool for an economy that has to create more jobs than it's doing.

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