google.com - 20 days ago
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3 days ago WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there. The Georgia nonprofit's inflated job count is among persisting ...
content.ksg.harvard.edu - 14 days ago
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The National Journal asks: “Is the Obama administration’s
stimulus plan helping to create or “save” 650,000 jobs,
as the president and his aides say? Is that an appropriate way to measure the stimulus’ impact?” My response: I ...
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Counting “Jobs Saved” by Obama Fiscal Stimulus
google.com - 26 days ago
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google.com —
1 day ago WASHINGTON An early progress report
on President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan overstates by
thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected ...
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The Associated Press: Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands
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You Can Officially Ignore All Future Administration Jobs Numbers
Coyote Blog —
Because when they defend this practice, they put themselves on record that they have absulutely no integrity in the process:
About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren’t saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren’t saved…. ...
Weekend Linky Dinks
UpsideTrader —
... 10.2%, probably more like 17% though if you really peel back the onion.. The indices all managed a gain of over 3% for the week, gold hit all time highs, and despite all the fanfare that the greenback was ready to roar higher, it managed to end lower for the week. The trading range continues. Have a great weekend and enjoy the links. The billion dollar airbag. The buy and hold song. Pick your letter and make your bet. The Goldman boys. Gotta raise? Your job was saved . Galleon was more transparent. Cohan on Larry Summers ...
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