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Obama advisers: Plan would create up to 4.1M jobs (AP)

 
AP - President-elect Barack Obama countered critics with an analysis Saturday by his economic team showing that a program of tax cuts and spending like he's proposed would create up to 4.1 million jobs, far more than the 3 million he has insisted are needed to lift the country from recession. (link)

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