Media Nation » jobs http://www.dankennedy.net By Dan Kennedy • The press, politics, technology, culture and other passions Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:42:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Scott Brown versus economic reality http://www.dankennedy.net/2010/02/17/scott-brown-versus-economic-reality/ http://www.dankennedy.net/2010/02/17/scott-brown-versus-economic-reality/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:23:52 +0000 Dan Kennedy http://www.dankennedy.net/?p=7316 “Failure should be admitted in Washington, and not repeated. With last month’s news that we lost another 85,000 jobs, and with unemployment stuck in the double digits, it’s time to admit that while the $787 billion stimulus had the best of intentions, it failed to create one new job.”

— Scott Brown, Boston Globe, Jan. 14

“Perhaps the best-known economic research firms are IHS Global Insight, Macroeconomic Advisers and Moody’s Economy.com. They all estimate that the bill has added 1.6 million to 1.8 million jobs so far and that its ultimate impact will be roughly 2.5 million jobs. The Congressional Budget Office, an independent agency, considers these estimates to be conservative.”

— David Leonhardt, New York Times, Feb. 16

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