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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Season 2014 Episode 1840 | 53m 21s

Thursday on the NewsHour, good jobs news from June with a strong hiring report and a dip in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent. Also: increased airport security and screening, the backlash against Common Core education standards, consumerism in rural Bangladesh, a reporter and his son embed with U.S. troops in Afghanistan and a new interpretation of the Declaration of Independence.

Aired: 07/02/14 | Expires: 12/31/69
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