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Watch live: Biden delivers speech as unemployment falls

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Watch live as Biden delivers speech as unemployment falls

US President Joe Biden is delivering remarks on a November jobs report that saw more than 200,000 jobs added to the US economy but fell well short of the kind of number economists had been forecasting.

The unemployment rate also fell to 4.2% across the country, but the business community had expected more than 500,000 jobs to be added to the US economy to match the kind of numbers we saw in October last month.

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