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RNC panel discusses jobs crisis

11:06 AM, August 30, 2012

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Kerri Miller attended a Huffington Post-sponsored panel discussion Wednesday at the Republican National Convention in Tampa called "What is Working - A Bipartisan Search for Solutions to the Jobs Crisis."

The panel was the launch of a multi-part effort to put the spotlight on solutions, innovative ideas, and thepeople who are actually creating jobs in today's economy.

We'll hear excerpts from that discussion.

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