Remarks by Vice President Biden on the unemployment numbers:
Today's tough news is a reminder though that -- as if anybody would need it -- how critical this work is in making the Recovery Act work and why. As I told the Cabinet assembled yesterday, those efforts need to be redoubled in the weeks ahead. Let me be clear about one thing: Today's bad news does not change my confidence in the fact that we are going to recover. We will be producing jobs. The American economy and the job engine is going to be created and moving once again.
And I believe we're doing the right things to move things in the right direction. And the determination and creativity of the American people, combined with our determination to stay the course on this recovery, are what is going to produce the ultimate result of a thrilling, vibrant economy, which brings me to the meeting that we're having today.
We're working with the task force to lay a new foundation for economic growth, a future predicated on good education, high-quality health care, and clean energy innovation; and that future that doesn't leave the middle class behind. And we're up against -- we are committed, as we go through, there will be peaks and valleys in this process. This is not a straight line to recovery, but we are recovering. We will recover. And we're determined that when we do, the middle class is in a better position coming out of this than when it went into this Great Recession.
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