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The Senator's "emergency economic plan" would give families $1,000, funded by a new tax on "excess profits" of major oil companies.

Plan also calls for $50 billion stimulus to "jump-start job creation."

Read campaign statement here, and full plan here.

Proposal released soon after news that unemployment climbed in July.

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