The official US unemployment rate reached 14.7 percent, the highest number since tracking the statistic began in 1948. CNN Senior Political Reporter Nia-Malika Henderson talks with Washington Post Columnist Catherine Rampell about the bleak economic outlook and what more can be done by Congress.

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