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Let me be real clear: Maine's unemployment rate is down to 3.3. It was just 2.8 just a couple months ago. We have recovered all the jobs we have lost since the pandemic, during the pandemic, the state's economic growth has been the 11th best in the country, that's what the experts say. Under Mr. LePage's tenure, we were always toward the bottom and one year we were 49th in the country from the last recession.