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July 30, 2010
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Crumbs from the Obama stimulus program
Alan Tonelson
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Number of U.S. jobs Obama administration claims were created or saved by the stimulus program: 640,000 Number of U.S. manufacturing jobs Obama administration claims were created or saved by the stimulus program: 2,500 U.S. manufacturing jobs as share of total U.S. jobs Obama administration claims were created or saved by stimulus program: 0.39 percent Number of total U.S. jobs lost during recession: 7.21 million Claimed stimulus-saved or -created jobs as share of total U.S. jobs lost: during recession 8.88 percent Number of total U.S. manufacturing jobs lost during recession: 2.06 million Claimed stimulus-saved or -created manufacturing jobs as share of total U.S. manufacturing jobs lost during recession: 0.12 percent
Sources: “Stimulus Watch: Factory towns slow to see stimulus,” by Matt Apuzzo and Justin Juozapavicius, Associated Press, November 2, 2009; calculated from customized tables, “Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National), Seasonally Adjusted,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/dsrv?ce
Alan Tonelson is a Research Fellow at the U.S. Business & Industry Educational Foundation and the author of The Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade are Sinking American Living Standards (Westview Press).
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