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Greg Mankiw's Blog: Counting Jobs
MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators: Follow-up to Job Counting
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RT @KipEsquire: If you bought a pair of boots today, then you "Obama-saved" nine jobs! http://is.gd/4NTme #tlot #fb 5 days ago |
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RT @Mario_Molina: Data collection takes time & effort. Bad data plan = problems & your data collector must be in sync: http://bit.ly/2ZD5NJ 10 days ago |
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This was an interesting find... How much stimulus can you get for 850$? http://bit.ly/2ZD5NJ 18 days ago |
Counting Jobs
Greg Mankiw's Blog —
How to create or save 9 jobs for $889.
Follow-up to Job Counting
MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators —
This is a humorous follow-up to my post of a couple days ago on jobs created and saved. It is from one of The Wall Street Journal blogs and explains why counting jobs saved/created is very difficult and may even be impossible. This can also be filed under "an anecdote is not data, but the plural of anecdote is data." ...
Wednesday's Daily News
Club for Growth —
... of yesterday's election results.
The Democrats' nationalized health care bill is getting bogged down in the Senate.
Senator Tom Coburn and Rep. Paul Ryan pen an op-ed about health reform's moment of untruth.
According to the Heritage Foundation, Democrats slipped a $6 billion slush fund into the House health care bill.
The House may vote on a health care bill as early as Friday.
From the WSJ, a shoe store owner tells a stimulus war story.
Remember when Republicans said they'd reform earmarks? That's ...
You Can Officially Ignore All Future Administration Jobs Numbers
Coyote Blog —
... There is also another impression one gets from the article, other than seeing all the fraud, they is not highlighted by the reporter — all of the jobs created seem to be government beauracrat jobs or community group jobs. Not one example of jobs actually producing something someone is willing to buy. Except maybe for this example: ...
How jobs "created and saved" by the stimulus get counted.
Scrivener.net —
... A spokeswoman for the Army Corps of Engineers in Louisville said that the stimulus reporting requirements were cumbersome, but important, and that the Corps had contracts ranging up to millions of dollars in the region. “It’s painstaking; it’s very, very detailed record keeping,” said Carol Labashosky... [WSJ] ...
