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STIMULUS WATCH: Stimulus jobs overstated in report      (AP)
STIMULUS WATCH: Stimulus jobs overstated in report (AP)
news.yahoo.com — AP - The White House is promising that new figures being released Friday will be a more... accurate showing of progress in President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan. It aggressively defended an earlier, faulty count that overstated by thousands ... (more) STIMULUS WATCH: Stimulus jobs overstated in report (AP)
More Stimulus Equals More Unemployment
realclearmarkets.com — "Stimulus" is in the process of turning a nasty recession into a genuine depression. The evidence is... in the "Employment Situation" report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on November 6th. The "headline" unemployment rate shot up to ... (more) More Stimulus Equals More Unemployment
Why We Need Even More Stimulus
huffingtonpost.com — The administration's biggest economic mistake so far was to badly underestimate last January how bad the employment... situation would become by Fall. As a result, it low-balled the stimulus -- settling for a plan that, while avoiding even worse job ... (more) Why We Need Even More Stimulus
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