CBO: 600K+ Jobs Created Or Saved By Stimulus So Far

Courtesy Donklephant  Tue, 12/01/2009 - 11:02am

Some welcome news for the White House, and the numbers could be even higher.

First, from the Wall Street Journal :

The Congressional Budget Office late Monday said it estimates that the federal stimulus package sustained between 600,000 and 1.6 million jobs in the third quarter, and raised gross domestic product by 1.2 to 3.2 percentage points higher than it would have been without the program.

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The CBO in March projected that the stimulus would...


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