Unemployment & Stimulus Update
When the Obama stimulus plan was proposed, the president's economic team put out a report that purported to show what would happen with and without the fiscal stimulus. The chart above is from page four that report, together with the actual results over the past couple months.
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Recent By The Numbers Archives
Job Losses and Employment - Catherine Rampell, NY Times Economix Blog
The economy lost another 190,000 jobs in October, showing the pace of losses is slower than it was...
The Wal-Mart Effect Overseas - Michael Wilkerson, Foreign Policy
Over the last five years, the economies of Wal-Mart countries outside the United States have grown...
Economic Stress Index - Associated Press
Measuring financial strain, county by county.
The Economy Where You Live - NPR.com
The fallout from the recession has cut deeply into the housing security, employment and income of...