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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz addresses state of the union

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz addressed the country's unemployment rate on CNN's "State of the Union." Schultz said the issue is not one faced by Republicans or Democrats, rather, all lawmakers are more concerned with politics than policy.

He believes the unemployment rate is "still disasterous" for the country and while he doesn't want to point blame, he said leaders in Washington are not representing Americans.

From the show:

"The fact that we're arguing constantly, day in and day out, about ideology as our partisanship and everyone in Washington is more concerned about re-election than the core issues of the country, there's something significantly wrong," he said on CNN's "State of the Union." ...

"I have no interest in public office. I have only one interest, and that is I want the country to be on the right track," Schultz told CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley. "I just feel that for some reason, over the last few years, there's been a fracturing of understanding and sensibility about the responsibility that the leadership in Washington must have to the people who are being left behind."

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