"While the United States has seen its unemployment rate steadily decline, New Jersey's remains nearly two percent higher than the national average and more than a point higher than Connecticut and New York."
"New Jersey has lost over half of our pharmaceutical jobs to states you know, not low-tax states like in the South, but high-tax states like New York."
Says "the number of Americans living at or below the poverty line is at its highest level since" 1964.
Says Chris Christie created "this new category where you could get laid off and just be totally denied unemployment benefits forever."
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