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Better times near, Bush officials tell state areas hurting for jobs
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001859855_econtour18m.html
By Beth Kaiman and David Postman
Seattle Times staff reporters

Three members of President Bush's Cabinet yesterday rode a bus through some of the country's highest unemployment areas, saying better times are close at hand because of the president's tax cuts, job-training programs and economic policies.

"You have to go where the problems are," Commerce Secretary Don Evans said in Richland before the Northwest tour headed to Yakima. Evans and his colleagues started the day in Spokane and today will be in Portland and Eugene, Ore.

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Washington and Oregon have been among the states hit hardest by unemployment. Washington has the fourth-highest unemployment rate in the nation and Oregon ranks second, according to December figures.

In Washington, Yakima and the Tri-Cities remain among the areas with the highest rate of unemployed workers.

But meeting with unemployed workers was not part of the agenda.

"We talk to them all the time," Chao said.

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didn't meet with unemployed workers,, but talk to them all the time? :wtf: